Monthly Archives: October 2011

Signing RPM packages is an important step because it ensures the authenticity of the file that is being installed on a system. I’ve created my own key using the command: gpg –gen-key I’ve also added my email address to the … Continue reading →

After successfully building my SRPM from the previous post, I tested the buildrequires with mock.     yum install mock     usermod -G mock clchor     mock -r fedora-14-x86_64 yourSRPM This took several minutes as I was using a virtual environment. … Continue reading →

In this post, I will illustrate the steps I took in order to build a RPM with my own modified spec file. First I installed the necessary packages:     yum groupinstall “Fedora Packager”     yum install rpmlint yum-utils Under my … Continue reading →

I’ve gone through several packages. Some were big while others are not supported anymore like gnuchess. The ones I’ve used for this demonstration is “hello” and spell”. I’ve included the download links below: http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gnu/hello/hello-2.7.tar.gz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/spell/spell-1.1.tar.gz First I installed the necessary … Continue reading →

Hi my name is Tommy (Cho Long) Chor and I am taking SBR600 this semester. For my final project, I will be working on the Raspberry Pi trying to optimize the X configuration. I’ve been trying to troubleshoot a problem … Continue reading →