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List:       et-mgmt-tools
Subject:    Re: [et-mgmt-tools] Re: Looping through possibilities in a "snippet"
From:       "Sandor W. Sklar" <ssklar () stanford ! edu>
Date:       2008-04-16 16:15:01
Message-ID: 41B8D5B6-1F8F-44A7-BA87-63587775E3DC () stanford ! edu
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On Apr 16, 2008, at 8:11 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Robin Bowes wrote:
>> Sandor W. Sklar wrote:
>>> ... but I think it would be useful to have a "How to build a devel
>>> branch RPM  on an RHEL5 system for dummies" page (I'd be happy to
>>> write it, unless y'all think this is something that shouldn't be in
>>> the wiki.)
>>
>> +1 for that.
>>
>> I'm at the stage where I want to try out some of the new features  
>> in the dev. version, but would like to use RPMs.
>>
>> I'm relatively experienced in building RPMs, but it would be nice  
>> to not have to work it out myself! :)
>>
>> It would be doubly nice to be able to do something like "make rpm"  
>> from the git checkout!! :) :)
>>
>> R.
>
>
> You can.
>
> The basic short instructions are, "follow the git checkout steps",  
> and then run "make".   Make will generate both the source
> and noarch RPMs for you, with no arguments.

I've added this page ...

<https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/QuickDevelRpmBuildGuide>

... which is short and direct.  It took me 10 minutes to write it, but  
about two hours to figure it out, so perhaps it is of benefit to  
others.  :-)

	-s-

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