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diff --git a/packaging/RHEL-CTDB/README b/packaging/RHEL-CTDB/README index 2fff78f015..f7ce381a92 100644 --- a/packaging/RHEL-CTDB/README +++ b/packaging/RHEL-CTDB/README @@ -1,3 +1,21 @@ -In order to keep the docs out of the bzr tree, first get a release -tarball of samba, then invoke makerpms.sh with the DOCS_TARBALL variable -pointing to the docs.tar.bz2 from a Samba release. +The rpms should be built not directly from the spec file (although +it is possible) but more conveniently using the makerpms.sh script: +It takes care of making a source tarball and building the rpms for +x86_64 and i386, the latter also producing the winbind-32bit +compatibility packages for x86_64. + +The makerpms.sh script must be invoked from out of a git checkout +(since git archive is used to produce the tarball for rpmbuild). + +To eliminate the need of building the docs from the sources +(which is time consuming and has vast build dependencies), +you need a samba release docs tarball called docs.tar.bz2 and point +the DOCS_TARBALL environment variable to it before calling makerpms.sh. +Alternatively, if the DOCS_TARBALL variable is not set, but if a +docs.tar.bz2 exists inside the rpm SOURCES directory +(/usr/src/redhat/SORUCES/ by default), that will be used. + +To produce an appropriate docs tarball, you can for instance pack the +docs dir from a samba release tarball using the command +"tar cjf docs.tar.bz2 docs". +Note: The docs tarball needs the docs/ prefix. |