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+====== Installing gEDA rpm packages on Fedora ======
+gEDA/gaf applications are available in the default Fedora repositories.  The Fedora packages are maintained by Chitlesh Goorah.
+==== Installing from Fedora repositories ====
+It is recommended to install gEDA/gaf releases on Fedora using ''yum'' or ''pirut''. Pirut (listed in the menu as "Add/Remove Software") is a graphical interface for ''yum''.
+  yum install geda\* pcb gerbv
+Note: you have to be root (''su -'') to install packages.
+Each gEDA/gaf release takes one to two days to be packaged up and synchronised with the Fedora mirrors.  If a release seems to be missing, you could file a bug report (Request for Enhancement, RFE) on [[http://bugzilla.redhat.com|Fedora's bugzilla]] asking them to update gEDA/gaf for you.
+You can follow:
+  * the releases on [[http://clunixchit.blogspot.com|Chitlesh Goorah's blog]], or
+  * the gEDA/gaf build times on [[http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/builds?userID=159|Fedora's build system]]
+==== Compile it yourself ====
+If you want to get their hands dirty by building gEDA/gaf on Fedora, you will need to install the dependencies listed in the gEDA/gaf ''README'' file.  They can be installed with ''yum'':
+  yum install libstroke-devel groff autoconf gtk2-devel gd-devel gettext-devel guile-devel
+==== Rebuild your own RPMs ====
+The Fedora Project provides simple tools for anyone to rebuild RPMs from SRPMs. An SRPM contains the upstream sources, the spec file and the patches required (if any).
+To be able to build RPMs, you will need a build platform, which does **NOT** require root access. ''rpmdevtools'' provides the requires tools to do so.
+  yum install rpmdevtools
+=== Build Platform ===
+The build platform should be built under a NON-root account.
+  fedora-buildrpmtree
+You will see a ''rpmbuild'' folder in your ''$HOME'' directory. This directory will be your build platform.
+=== How to get SRPMs ===
+Fedora provides SRPM of every package it has. You can download those SRPMs using the ''yumdownloader'' tool from the ''yum-utils'' package.
+  yum install yum-utils
+if you don't have ''yum-utils'' installed already.
+Download the ''geda-gaf'' SRPM  (under a NON-root account) using:
+  yumdownloader --source geda-gaf
+Once the download is complete the package can be found under the current directory under the filename ''geda-gaf-%{version}-%{dist}.src.rpm'', where ''%{version}'' is the current version of gEDA/gaf packaged by Fedora, and ''%{dist}'' is the current Fedora version.  For example, the gEDA/gaf SRPM for Fedora 14 is called ''geda-gaf-1.6.1-1.fc14.src.rpm''.
+The spec file, upstream sources and distribution patches can be extracted from the SRPM using:
+  rpm -ivh geda-gaf-%{version}-%{dist}.src.rpm
+(I remind you that this should never be executed as root!)
+You will see
+  * spec files will be installed in rpmbuild/SPECS
+  * sources, patches and desktop files will be installed in rpmbuild/SOURCES
+=== Building new RPMS from new sources ===
+First:
+  - Download your new sources, as described in the previous section.
+  - Edit the rpmbuild/SPECS/%{name}.spec
+    - Edit version tag
+    - Edit release tag
+  - Make any other changes you require
+Once the previous steps have been completed, you can compile the new RPMs.
+  cd $HOME/rpmbuild/SPECS/
+  rpmbuild -ba %{name}.spec
+The successfully built RPMS will be found in ''$HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/'', and the corresponding SRPM in ''$HOME/rpmbuild/SRPMS''.

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