On 2006-07-13, forrie@gmail.com <forrie@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a little new to RPMs - coming from a FreeBSD environment. It
> should be possible to unrpm (disassemble) the source RPMf, make some
> edits (to the *.spec file, for example) and reassemble via a compile
> process.

Well, there's no real disassembling to be done, when you install the
source rpm, that's all you need (excluding dependancies, of course).
Edit around what you want, make them patches with diff if you want, and
then use rpmbuild to roll your own customized packages and install them.

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