Re: [Boost-users] Installing 1.56 on Fedora 20

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Installing 1.56 on Fedora 20
From: Neal Becker (ndbecker2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-08-22 15:11:39

Robert Jones wrote:

> On 18 August 2014 14:14, Neal Becker <ndbecker2_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
>> The best way to discover these things is download the src package to see
>> how the
>> standard fedora package is built.
>>
>> yumdownloader --source xxxxx
>>
>> That's a handy tip, thanks. My ignorance of rpms is letting me down now.
> I've
> done
> 
> yumdownloader --source boost
> 
> which downloaded 1.54, but listing its contents with
> 
> rpm -q -p boost-1.54.0-9.fc20.src.rpm -l
> 
> doesn't show me anything which obviously contains a build line. Where
> would I find this?
> 
> Thx, Rob.

Install the source rpm:

rpm -i xxx.srpm

Now you can find the .spec file and see everything.

I also just learned, you can fine a spec file like this:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/boost.git/tree/boost.spec?h=f20

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