Building RPMs question

Chong Yu Meng chongym
Mon May 17 11:56:48 PDT 2004


Hi all !

Need help with building RPM packages. Here's my problem:

Previously, I used Apache RPMs from FalseHope, created by Henri Gomez. 
They're actually pretty good, but because of a bug in Apache 2.0.47, and 
the impending deployment of a web service I'm working on, I need the 
latest 2.0.48 version. I can get the latest from Fedora Core updates, 
but personally, I don't trust Red Hat's versions of Apache.

I can get the tarballs and compile it, but I need an RPM package  
because someone else is going to maintain the server after I finish 
setting it up. So, I was wondering how I could build an RPM package 
specifically for Apache. I've been googling last night to search for 
tutorials on RPMs, but so far, the docs are either too old (RPM v3.x 
mostly), or for other distributions. Ideally, if there's a web tutorial 
on building RPMs, that would be great !

So, my question is : does anybody know of any good resources for 
building rpm packages?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
pascal chong





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