Alternatively, I've been doing:

rpm2cpio | cpio -i --make-directories
# mv sources/patches to source dir
rpm --rebuild <spec>

Granted, it won't be the original SRPM anymore, but it helps if you
don't have access to newer systems yet.

HTH,
gino

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Todd Zullinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Scott Henson wrote:
>> If you have an f11 system handy, you can rebuild the srcrpm with
>> rpmbuild-md5.
>
> Worth noting that rpmbuild-md5 comes from fedora-packager.  It's a
> very simple wrapper that just sets two definitions so that the
> packages created by newer rpm versions can be read by older versions.
> To do it manually, just use:
>
> rpmbuild --define "_source_filedigest_algorithm md5"  \
>         --define "_binary_filedigest_algorithm md5" ...
>
> This might be good to add to any automated rpm creation scripts if
> they're creating packages meant for use on RHEL or Fedora 10 systems.
>
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