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authorOndrej Mikle <ondrej.mikle@gmail.com>2012-06-16 18:38:14 +0200
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2012-07-31 11:41:40 -0400
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Workaround for building EL5 RPMs by specifying rpmbuild-md5. Updated old note about using static libevent when building RPMs.
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diff --git a/doc/tor-rpm-creation.txt b/doc/tor-rpm-creation.txt
index eb22c2225..a88f2e829 100644
--- a/doc/tor-rpm-creation.txt
+++ b/doc/tor-rpm-creation.txt
@@ -2,18 +2,9 @@
##
The process used to create the official rpms is as follows:
-Download latest stable libevent from
-http://libevent.org/
-
-The first step of compiling libevent is to configure it as follows:
-./configure --enable-static --disable-shared
-
-Complete the "make" and "make install". You will need to be root,
-or sudo -s, to complete the "make install".
-
-Check for a successful universal binary of libevent.a in, by default,
-/usr/local/lib by using the following command:
- "file /usr/local/lib/libevent.a"
+You'll need to install libevent headers, usually located in package named
+libevent-devel. Alternatively, you could download latest libevent from
+http://libevent.org/ but that shouldn't be necessary.
Download and Extract the latest tor source code from
https://www.torproject.org/download
@@ -25,6 +16,9 @@ make dist-rpm
You should have at least two, maybe three, rpms. There should be the binary
i386.rpm, a src.rpm, and on redhat/centos machines, a debuginfo.rpm.
+This step suffices unless you want to create RPMs for distros other than the
+one you used for building.
+
## Instructions for building RPMs for multiple architectures or distributions
## using 'mock'
@@ -39,5 +33,22 @@ extension in the -r parameter):
mock --rebuild -r fedora-17-x86_64 tor-X.Y.Z.src.rpm
+Building for EL5 from newer distro (e.g. EL6 or Fedora 17) will fail due to bug
+(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490613).
+Here's a workaround:
+
+Before even building the source RPM, install fedora-packager and instruct
+the build system to use rpmbuild-md5 like this:
+
+yum install fedora-packager
+export RPMBUILD=rpmbuild-md5
+
+Then proceed as usual to create the source RPM and binary RPMs:
+
+LIBS=-lrt ./configure
+make dist-rpm
+mock --rebuild -r epel-5-x86_64 tor-X.Y.Z.src.rpm
+
+
(Note: don't build under OpenVZ - it breaks unshare() syscall, which in turn
breaks mock. It could save you several hours.)