Download an rpm:- for eg samba. I am using a SUSE 11.x machine, may be i can enable the same using yast. Just consider this as an eg for installing a source rpm. I downloaded samba rpm :- samba-2.0.8-1.7.1.src.rpm
Run the command rpm -ivh samba-2.0.8-1.7.1.src.rpm
you will see the normal rpm installation graphics like :-
1:samba ########################################### [100%]
Rememebr this is a source rpm intsllation and so the rpm is not installed yet. we will need to now compile the source just like any other source in a .gz or a .zip format. In a Redahat OS after the above step the source file would have been extracted to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES but for me it got extracted to /usr/src/packages/SOURCES dir. The following files were present after the extraction:-
linux-lh9j:/usr/src/packages/SOURCES # ll
total 4548
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 66220 Feb 8 2001 ookpatch
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 342 Jun 26 2000 samba-2.0.5a-gawk.patch
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 429 Oct 16 2000 samba-2.0.7-buildroot.patch
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 2400 Feb 8 2001 samba-2.0.7-fixinit.patch
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 808 Jun 30 2000 samba-2.0.7-krb5-1.2.patch
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 356 Aug 1 2000 samba-2.0.7-nocups.patch
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 3995 Jan 19 2001 samba-2.0.7-pam-foo.patch
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 3353 Mar 30 2001 samba-2.0.7-quota.patch
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 3876 Mar 27 2001 samba-2.0.7-setcred.patch
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 3464 Oct 25 2000 samba-2.0.7-smb.conf.rh.patch
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 2599 Aug 8 2000 samba-2.0.7-smbadduser.patch
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 963 Jan 19 2001 samba-2.0.7-smbpasswd-manpage.patch
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 586 Jun 29 2000 samba-2.0.7-ssl.patch
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 380 Jun 26 2000 samba-2.0.7-system-auth.patch
-rw——- 1 root root 449 May 8 2001 samba-2.0.8-tempfile.patch
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 3489579 Apr 21 2001 samba-2.0.8.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 1533 Feb 8 2001 samba-autoconf.patch
-rw——- 1 root root 1318 Jun 26 2000 samba-glibc21.patch
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 561 Jun 26 2000 samba-ia64.patch
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 183850 Feb 15 2001 samba-j-2.patch.bz2
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 774117 Feb 8 2001 samba-j.patch.bz2
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 523 Jun 27 2000 samba-logrotate.patch
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 436 Jun 26 2000 samba-makefilepath.patch
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 420 Jan 19 2001 samba-mkdir.patch
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 2567 Jun 26 2000 samba-smbprint.patch
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 196 Jul 21 2000 samba.log
-rw-rw-r– 1 root root 357 Oct 16 2000 samba.xinetd
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 16455 Jan 19 2001 smbmount-2.0.7-ascii+fixes.patch
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 350 Jun 27 2000 smbw.patch
Now you can compile the source in two ways one is using the configure script and other is using the rpm command. From the above list you can see the the file samba-2.0.8.tar.gz which will have the configure script. untar the same and inside the dir /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/samba-2.0.8/source you will see the configure script. Executing the configure script will compile from the source. “./configure –help” will give you the whole list of options. For eg if you want to add utmp option along with the default options, give :-
./configure –with-utmp
make
make install
And if you are going to compile using the rpm command, navigate yourselves to /usr/src/packages/SPECS , inside which you will see the file samba.spec. Search for the option %configure inside the file and you will see the following line :-
%configure –libdir=/etc/samba \
–with-lockdir=/var/lock/samba –with-privatedir=/etc/samba \
–with-swatdir=/usr/share/swat –with-smbmount –with-automount \
–with-pam –with-mmap –with-quotas –without-smbwrapper
make CFLAGS=”$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -D_GNU_SOURCE” all
add the option –with-utmp above and then it becomes:-
%configure –libdir=/etc/samba \
–with-lockdir=/var/lock/samba –with-privatedir=/etc/samba \
–with-swatdir=/usr/share/swat –with-smbmount –with-automount \
–with-pam –with-mmap –with-quotas –without-smbwrapper –with-utmp
make CFLAGS=”$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -D_GNU_SOURCE” all
Save the file now and run rpmbuild samba.spec or rpm -bb samba.spec
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