Been trying to follow these instructions in Fedora Core 4

Every things cool unitl step three. Sense these instructions are 1 year old, i have adapted it a little. Main issue is part 3

rpm -ivh ~/httpd-2.0.40-21.16.legacy.src.rpm

Does this.

warning: ./httpd-2.0.50-1.0.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
1:httpd ########################################### [100%]

No files are created as the guide below says should happen.



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Here's how to rebuild Apache from SRPM, including the change you want to make.

1. Grab the httpd SRPM from the FC1 updates:

% wget http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fe....48-1.2.src.rpm

2. Set up your RPM build area:

% echo "%_topdir /home/yourname/src/rpm" >> ~/.rpmmacros
% mkdir -p ~/src/rpm/
% cd ~/src/rpm
% mkdir BUILD RPMS RPMS/i386 SOURCES SPECS SRPMS

3. Install the SRPM:

% rpm -ivh ~/httpd-2.0.48-1.2.src.rpm

This will put the source tarball and patches in SOURCES, and a specfile (metadata and instructions for building) in SPECS.

4. Edit the specfile, bumping up the release number, changing the suexec docroot, and noting this in the changelog:

% vi SPECS/httpd.spec

line 8:
< Release: 1.2
> Release: 1.3

line 202:
< --with-suexec-docroot=%{contentdir} \
> --with-suexec-docroot=/home \

line 510:
%changelog
* Tue May 18 2004 Your Name <you@yours> 2.0.48-1.3
- Rebuilt with suexec-docroot set to /home instead of %{contentdir}

5. Rebuild httpd, creating both a binary RPM and a source SRPM:

% rpmbuild -ba SPECS/httpd.spec

You may have to install some additional packages to satisfy build dependencies here. When it's done, you'll have binary packages in RPMS/i386/, and a source package including your modified specfile in SRPMS/.

6. You can now either upgrade to the httpd you just compiled...

% sudo rpm -Fvh RPMS/i386/httpd*.rpm RPMS/i386/mod_ssl*.rpm

7. ...or simply extract the suexec binary and copy it over the original one:

% rpm2cpio RPMS/i386/httpd-2.0.48-1.3.i386.rpm | cpio -imVd ./usr/sbin/suexec
% sudo cp -p /usr/sbin/suexec /usr/sbin/suexec.orig
% sudo cp ./usr/sbin/suexec /usr/sbin/suexec
% sudo chown root:apache /usr/sbin/suexec
% sudo chmod 4510 /usr/sbin/suexec

Personally, I haven't yet had any problems with just keeping the suexec binary I compiled months ago and reusing it with later updates of Apache (i.e., repeat step 7 after installing an httpd update), YMMV. Obviously if there is ever a security update involving suexec itself, though, you should rebuild again.
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Last edited by bradthemad : 2004-05-18 at 07:14 AM PDT.
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ok.. this line maybe throwing you off...



should actually be



You might want to manually edit the file and remove the previous addition. If its not this...



this is good, the package installed.. the warning is a nothing just saying the rpm isn't signed. give us an output this:



maybe the rpm is different?

You could if you wanted to just install the binary issung the following command:

It still no workie

Hard writing the .rpmmacro did help but in the end it still errors


[root@localhost rpm]# rpmbuild -ba SPECS/httpd.spec
error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: serial
error: line 126: Unknown tag: Serial: 1

=P

ok well that is basically saying that the spec file contains old syntax that isn't supported anymore. not much you can do with that