I started with this, which got me a list of CentOS mirrors, and then picked the first mirror. Here’s a list of packages for CentOS 6. If the particular mirror lsited here is dead, you can simply find another mirror by returning to the list of mirrors and follow the same logic.
Yes, you can do that. Do not list any Sources. In the %prep section do not use the %setup macro (which untars the source); rather, just check out the source. Note that you will not be able to build SRPMs if you do this.
You’ll want to install the boost-devel package. Package description: boost-devel.x86_64 : The Boost C++ headers and shared development libraries yum install boost-devel
The haproxy package has been removed from EPEL because it is now included with RHEL 6.4 (and will be in derivative distributions after they build 6.4). Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 introduces the haproxy package as a Technology Preview. If you need it now, you can obtain Red Hat’s 6.4 SRPM and rebuild it on … Read more
Yes, very easy to do so. Just write: Requires: somepackage >= 0.5.0, somepackage < 0.6.0 into your .spec file. Adding Version Requirements When a package has slightly more stringent needs, it’s possible to require certain versions of a package. All that’s necessary is to add the desired version number, preceded by one of the following … Read more
Did you try the rpm2cpio commmand? See the example below: $ rpm2cpio php-5.1.4-1.esp1.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf ./etc/php.d ./etc/php.ini ./usr/bin/php ./usr/bin/php-cgi etc
yum uses RPM, so the following command will list the contents of the installed package: $ rpm -ql package-name
There are two cases: If a file was installed as part of a rpm, it is a config file (i.e. marked with the %config tag), you’ve edited the file afterwards and you now update the rpm then the new config file (from the newer rpm) will replace your old config file (i.e. become the active … Read more
You don’t need to do any of this; RPM has a query format argument which will let you specify exactly the data you want to receive. It will even output without line endings if you don’t specify them. For instance: rpm –queryformat “%{NAME} %{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %{ARCH}” -q coreutils rpm –queryformat “The version of %{NAME} is … Read more
This is an old question, but the current answers are incorrect 🙂 Use yum whatprovides, with the absolute path to the file you want (which may be wildcarded). For example: yum whatprovides ‘*bin/grep’ Returns grep-2.5.1-55.el5.x86_64 : The GNU versions of grep pattern matching utilities. Repo : base Matched from: Filename : /bin/grep You may prefer … Read more