Build bash 3.2 rpm package

[Sam Varshavchik]

Bruno Galindro da Costa writes:

> Sam,
>   
>    When you mean 'nuke all other files' what do you want to mean? Delete 
> all other files? 
> 
>    If I download the source package (e.g. bash-3.2-24.el5.src.rpm for Red 
> Hat 5), install it, grab only the spec file and put it in 
> /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ directory, put all other files in 
> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ directory and try to do a rpmbuild -ba 
> /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/bash.spec, could it work?

Yes. And you will end up with a perfectly valid bash rpm package.

Unfortunately, you will not be able to install it. That's because the 
package will install /bin/bash, and you already have this file installed by 
your existing bash rpm. This is the fundamental function of rpm: to 
prevent different packages from installing conflicting files and 
overwriting each other.

And not just /bin/bash, but also the corresponding man page, the locale 
files, and all other files that you seen when you run "rpm -q -l bash".

That's why I told you that you need to modify the spec file so that the 
final bash binary gets installed as /bin/bash3, so as to not conflict with 
your existing bash interpreter, as well as remove all other files from your 
bash 3 rpm package, so that the only thing that your newly-built bash rpm 
would install is /bin/bash3.


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