From: Stéphane Teletchéa (steletch_at_jouy.inra.fr)
Date: Mon Feb 13 2006 - 04:13:25 CST

Bogdan Costescu a écrit :
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, John Stone wrote:
>

[BIG SNIP]

>>Is there a nice way to have a patch get applied to a required SRPM
>>before it gets installed?
>
>
> Yes. A normal SRPM contains one or more sources (usually as tar.gz or
> tar.bz2) and zero to many patches. In the first stage of the rpmbuild
> process ('rpmbuild -bp'), the sources are unpacked and all the patches
> are applied. Patches are usually in the 'diff -u' format, but anything
> that 'patch' accepts is probably fine.There are also ways to apply
> patches or configure the build process based on defines (from the
> 'rpmbuild' command line) or environment data.
>
> I don't know how many people on this list are interested in these
> details, so maybe this discussion should be made private. I certainly
> would be willing to help creating a RPM (or set of RPMs) for VMD.
>

You can count on me also (i'm Mandriva-centered).

Stéphane

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