[WBEL-users] Building WBEL-compatible RPMs on Debian

[Daniel J. Summers]

Edward Rudd wrote:
> Daniel J. Summers wrote:
>   
>> I've been doing some looking around, and I think I've decided to try
>> Debian on my laptop once I get it back from being serviced.  However,
>> I currently host xine RPMs built using WBEL that work with
>> RHEL/WBEL/CentOS/etc.  To make these, I download the "new" xine source
>> tarball, then execute the command
>>
>> rpmbuild -ta [name_of_tarball]
>>
>> I then FTP the resulting RPMs up to my website and update the download
>> links.  Would rpmbuild run under a Debian distro?  Assuming I was
>> using an x86_64 version of Debian, would the resultant RPM still work
>> the same on the EL clones as it does today?
>>
>>     
> Simple answer, no.. debian is DEB based and not rpm based so there would
> be no rpm packages for debian
>   
Right - I understand that.  (I've used SimplyMEPIS for a while, but I 
miss having the 64-bit support - and, the last I heard, there are no 
plans for a 64-bit MEPIS...)  I know that they have a tool called 
rpm2deb that allows you to create DEB packages from an RPM, I just 
didn't know if they'd have something like that in reverse - and, if they 
did, would it work?  :)
> a Long answer, yes you can do it.  BUT it requires you having an install
> of WBEL in a chroot. and using a package like pydar2 or mach to build
> the rpms within the chrooted install of wbel on you debian system.
>
> Currently I am building wbel3 rpms in this manner (though my host OS on
> that box is also wbel3).
>
> for one package this may be a little overkill however..
>   
Maybe, but it sounds like something that would be a good experience - do 
you know of a good HOWTO on setting up that sort of environment?  I 
heard "chroot" tossed around ever since I started using RH derivatives, 
and I've looked it up in the man pages, but I still don't quite 
understand what that does.

Thanks for your advice.  :)

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