Fedora Build xtables-addons1-1.24 RPM Package

This tutorial was tested on fedora 12 system, it might be worked on onthers redhat base system, I’ve modified rpm spec file as generic as possible. it was shamelessly stolen 😀 from Jan Engelhardt xtables rpm source file.i slightly modified it a bit

Download xtables-addons 1.24 source

$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/xtables-addons/Xtables-addons/1.24/xtables-addons-1.24.tar.bz2?use_mirror=nchc

prepare your .rpmmacros environment, rpmbuild directories, if not exist yet

$ mkdir rpmbuild
$ mkdir -p rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS,tmp}

Create .rpmmacros file

$ vi  .rpmmacros
%_topdir                %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild
%_tmppath               %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild/tmp

[p>Extract xtables-addons-1.24.tar.bz2, cd to xtables-addons-1.24 directory

$ tar xjf xtables-addons-1.24.tar.bz2
$ cd xtables-addons-1.24