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| author | Anders Broman <anders.broman@ericsson.com> | 2007-02-27 06:58:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Anders Broman <anders.broman@ericsson.com> | 2007-02-27 06:58:30 +0000 |
| commit | f73b16ffc093a9dcfe6fa876f30dbb551e1bb57c (patch) | |
| tree | 5ca1edafd679f58a7e670b8c7a551eee5f1552e7 /docbook/wsdg_src | |
| parent | bcdcace17b3896fae75cf920ab74a3f379227419 (diff) | |
From Douglas Pratley:
This patch gives brief instructions on how to build the RPM package target for Wireshark.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=20938
Diffstat (limited to 'docbook/wsdg_src')
| -rw-r--r-- | docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_sources.xml | 24 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_sources.xml b/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_sources.xml index b6106a8665..a371c38a99 100644 --- a/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_sources.xml +++ b/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_sources.xml @@ -1057,10 +1057,28 @@ $Id$ <section id="ChSrcRpm"> <title>Red Hat: .rpm packages</title> <para> - XXX - don't know how to do + The RPM is built using rpmbuild (http://www.rpm.org/), which comes as standard on many flavours of Linux, including + Red Hat and Fedora. The process creates a clean build environment in <filename>packaging/rpm/BUILD</filename> every + time the RPM is built. The settings controlling the build are in <filename>packaging/rpm/SPECS/wireshark.spec.in</filename>. After editing the settings in this file, <filename>./configure</filename> must be run again in the wireshark direcrory to generate the actual specification script. </para> - </section> - + <warning><title>Warn!</title><para> + The SPEC file contains settings for the <filename>configure</filename> used to set the RPM build environment. These are + completely independent of any settings passed to the usual Wireshark <filename>./configure</filename>.</para></warning> + <para> + In the wireshark directory, type: + </para> + <para> + <prompt>></prompt> <userinput>make rpm-package</userinput> + </para> + <para> + to build the RPM. Once it is done, there will be a message stating where the built RPM can be found. + </para> + <tip><title>Tip!</title> + <para> + Because this does a clean build, as well as constructing the package, this can take quite a long time. + </para> + </tip> + </section> <section id="ChSrcNSIS"> <title>Win32: NSIS .exe installer</title> <para> |