Bruce Pennypacker wrote:
> I'm in the process of starting to set up some of this to build for
> our growing linux base. ... I'm stuck on the proper way of
> identifying the sources in my .spec file. I really don't want to
> have to write wrappers for each project to simply do a cvs checkout
> and gzip it just so rpmbuild can then unzip it and build it.

Why not? There are a lot of advantages. Then rpmbuild can create
true .src.rpm files. Then the process flow falls into a normal flow
the same as other rpm build steps. I personally would (and have)
build a tar.gz file and then build from it.

> Is there a good (preferably simple) way of having rpmbuild simply
> check out an entire cvs project tree as the source rather than
> trying to grab and unzip a package?

The "%prep" script is a script. You can put any commands you wish
there. Of course the common thing is to use a "%setup" macro but that
is not required. You can instead of "%setup" simply checkout the
sources from cvs. Something like this (UNTESTED):

%prep
%setup -q -c -T
cvs -d server:anoncvs@example.com:/cvsroot/project checkout -d %{name}-${version} %{name}

Bob

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On Friday, 14 December 2007, at 16:14:22 (-0500),
Bruce Pennypacker wrote:

> We have an environment where we have a number of applications being
> stored in CVS. They're historically for Solaris, designed for
> Solaris package management. I'm in the process of starting to set up
> some of this to build for our growing linux base. I can build the
> packages manually, and I'd like to wrap them up as RPM's, but I'm
> stuck on the proper way of identifying the sources in my .spec
> file. I really don't want to have to write wrappers for each project
> to simply do a cvs checkout and gzip it just so rpmbuild can then
> unzip it and build it. Is there a good (preferably simple) way of
> having rpmbuild simply check out an entire cvs project tree as the
> source rather than trying to grab and unzip a package?

Mezzanine (http://beta.kainx.org/wiki/view/Mezzanine) was originally
designed to pull sources out of CVS and build them using an external
configuration file (called a "product" file) as its only guide. It
can even generate source tarballs for you if given appropriate
instructions.

If you're interested, we can speak off-list.

Michael

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