gnucash/packaging

This directory contains spec files for building an RPM





  WATCH OUT: These spec file(s) might be heavily out of date and/or

  absolutely NOT SUITED to your distribution! They are particularly

  matched for the Fedora Core 4 distribution, but DO NOT USE THEM if

  you don't have exactly that distribution! Your own distribution

  probably has its own source RPM of gnucash, and this source RPM

  includes a spec file that is much better suited to your

  distribution.



  I repeat: DO NOT USE THIS SPEC file unless you either have Fedora

  Core 4 or you really know how you can modify it to suit your

  distribution.



  For German-speaking users, there are German build instructions for

  RPMs on http://linuxwiki.de/GnuCash/RpmInstallieren . 



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Original file content:





Short instructions:



> I've never built an rpm; given a spec file, how do I do this?

> I understand the theory, just not clear on what to type up.



You'll need to be root in many distributions.  (It is possible to

avoid this requirement, but I haven't done the work to the RPM.) 

However, in some distributions (e.g. SuSE) these instructions will

work even as a normal user.



cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

tar -zxvf xacc-1.x.tar.gz

cp xacc-1.x/rpm/xacc.spec ../SPECS

cp xacc-1.x/rpm/xacc.wmconfig .



cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS

rpm -ba xacc.spec



wait a bit, and a new binary rpm will be in

/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/<arch> and a new src.rpm will be in

/usr/src/redhat/SRPMS.





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JPL version:



1) Obtain a GnuCash distribution (source code .tar.gz file), 

   either by downloading from an ftp site somewhere, or building

   from CVS using "make dist".  The file should have the nomenclature

   gnucash-X.Y.Z.tar.gz where X.Y.Z are the release numbers.



2) Copy and uncompress/tar the distribution in your 

   /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES directory.  You will need to do this as the 

   root user.  Note, use your distribution-specific path here, only 

   redhat uses "/usr/src/redhat".



   cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

   cp /SOMEPATH/gnucash-X.Y.Z.tar.gz

   tar xvzf gnucash-X.Y.Z.tar.gz



3) Copy the rpm spec file to /usr/src/redhat/SPEC.



   cp gnucash-X.Y.Z/rpm/gnucash.spec /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/.

   

4) Edit the spec file, you probably will only need to modify the 

   following 3 lines, depending on what features you want to include 

   in the rpm:



   %define _with_postgres 0      (use postgres backend?)

   %define _with_ofx 0           (use openofx package?)

   %define _with_hbci 0          (use hbci package?)



5) Build the binary and source RPMs

   cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS

   rpmbuild -ba gnucash.spec



   (note: older versions of rpm use "rpm -ba FILE.spec" to build) 

   

6) Wait a bit, and a new binary rpm will be in

   /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/<arch> and a new src.rpm will be in

   /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS.