help with building SRPMS...
I need to rebuild NetworkManager from sources because I suspect that the
madwifi special wifi patch is being applied even though it shouldn't. I
do this all the time for FC5, but I seem to be having problems with
doing this in FC6 and I'm hoping I can get some help with this to speed
me on my way:
1) I noticed that /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-development.repo has a
"development-source" entry that is disabled by default. First of all
the mirror list entry fails and I have to edit it to use the baseurl
entry. However, how do I get it to install the SRPM? It just claims
that NetworkManager is already installed. I can get around this by just
downloading the SRPM using wget, but I was wondering if there is some
yum voodoo I'm missing go get yum to do it for me (and maybe even try
and resolve the build dependencies).
2) I have %_topdir set to a non-root build directory and I rpm -hiv the
SRPM. When I do rpmbuild -bb SPEC/NetworkManager.spec, it immediately
fails because of a line like '%if %{fc6_or_later}'". When I changed it
to '%if "%{fc6_or_later}"' it at least doesn't blow with a syntax
error. However,....
3) [disregard this complaint, just as I finished typing it, these
packages appeared] It fails with missing dependencies like
"wireless-tools-devel", "gettext-devel", "libnl-devel",
"libnotify-devel", and "perl-XML-Parser". However, I can't find
these
in development or extras-development.
Obviously, NetworkManager is being build by someone since it appears in
the repo, but I can't figure out what I'm missing to make this work.
thanks for any pointers
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__o Brian "la lumaca"
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