--On Monday, August 04, 2014 4:17 PM +0200 Jurie Botha 
<jurieb AT taprojects.co DOT za> wrote:

> Why not build from source? It's really not that difficult.

Building from a source RPM IS building from source. The source RPM includes 
the source tarball, patches needed to customized the system to the distro, 
and a meta build script that unpacks the tarball, applies the patches, 
invokes the right make command, and then packages it all up in a format 
suitable to track the installed files so that updates and removals work 
properly. It may also include install-time scripts to add a necessary user 
to run a service as, and to hook the service into the boot and shutdown 
system.

Here's how to set up your build system:

<http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/04/05/how-to-build-rpm-packages-on-fedora/>

Grab the source RPM here:

<http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/SRPMS/BackupPC-3.3.0-2.el6.src.rpm>

Command to turn a source RPM into a binary RPM:

rpmbuild --rebuild BackupPC-3.3.0-2.el6.src.rpm

(You might need to add some options to that command line. I usually add 
"--define 'dist kp'" to define dist as "kp" to mark the packages I build. 
The dist variable gets suffixed to the release number. For official 
binaries, it has values like "epel".)

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