On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Brice D Ruth wrote:
> I'm trying to rebuild an rpm from source (like I've done so many times
> in the past) and for some reason, I can't. I type:
>
> *rpm --rebuild libnspr4-4.1-3mdk.src.rpm**
> *
> And I get rpm spitting back to me the command line options for rpm. If
> I type rpm --help, I see the --rebuild option (and --recompile). Same
> with man rpm. But neither of those options seem valid.
> *
> **# rpm -q rpm**
> **rpm-4.0-26mdk*
>
> What's going on? Has anyone else been able to rebuild an rpm from src?
There is s seperate package required for building rpms. Get the rpm-build
package, and then you can do
rpmbuild --rebuild whatever.src.rpm
Ian
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