How to build SRPMs for Rawhide from Fedora 12

[Edmon Begoli]

Hi,

I am working on a Fedora 12 machine, but I would like to build Java
packages for rawhide
without necessarily enabling rawhide repository for all the system (it
messes with the stable updates).

How can I create an RPM build environment for rpmbuild that accesses
all the dependencies available
in rawhide without affecting the host?

Thank you in advance.
EB

[Adam Young]

Sounds like you want to use Mock.

yum install mock, and then initialize:

mock -r fedora-13-x86_64  --init

You can then rebuild an SRPM for example doing this:

mock -r fedora-13-x86_64  --installdeps --rebuild 
/home/ayoung/rpmbuild/SRPMS/rubygem-rubyzip-0.9.1-1.young.src.rpm

On 05/14/2010 10:54 AM, Edmon Begoli wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I am working on a Fedora 12 machine, but I would like to build Java
>  packages for rawhide
>  without necessarily enabling rawhide repository for all the system (it
>  messes with the stable updates).
>
>  How can I create an RPM build environment for rpmbuild that accesses
>  all the dependencies available
>  in rawhide without affecting the host?
>
>  Thank you in advance.
>  EB
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>

[Adam Young]

On 05/14/2010 10:58 AM, Adam Young wrote:
>  Sounds like you want to use Mock.
>
>  yum install mock, and then initialize:
>
>  mock -r fedora-13-x86_64  --init
>
>  You can then rebuild an SRPM for example doing this:
>
>  mock -r fedora-13-x86_64  --installdeps --rebuild
>  /home/ayoung/rpmbuild/SRPMS/rubygem-rubyzip-0.9.1-1.young.src.rpm
>      
Just to close the loop, you can build the source RPM from 
sources/patches/spec file by running

rpmbuild -bs rubygem-rubyzip.spec



>  On 05/14/2010 10:54 AM, Edmon Begoli wrote:
>     
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am working on a Fedora 12 machine, but I would like to build Java
> > packages for rawhide
> > without necessarily enabling rawhide repository for all the system (it
> > messes with the stable updates).
> >
> > How can I create an RPM build environment for rpmbuild that accesses
> > all the dependencies available
> > in rawhide without affecting the host?
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> > EB
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[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:54:28 -0400,
  Edmon Begoli <ebegoli(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  I am working on a Fedora 12 machine, but I would like to build Java
>  packages for rawhide
>  without necessarily enabling rawhide repository for all the system (it
>  messes with the stable updates).
>  
>  How can I create an RPM build environment for rpmbuild that accesses
>  all the dependencies available
>  in rawhide without affecting the host? 
You can use scratch builds to test the building process without actually
putting the updated version in rawhide. Depending on what exactly you
are testing that might be a better option.