On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Shane Owenby wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 11:24:30AM -0500, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> >
> > Is there a trick to installing source RPMs? I
> > downloaded samba-2.0.5a-3mdk.src.rpm from one of the
> > mandrake mirrors, and installed it using 'rpm -ivh' (like all the binaries
> > I do successfully). When I then
> > query for the file list, I get told it isn't installed?
> >
> > [root@sphinx local]# rpm -ivh samba-2.0.5a-3mdk.src.rpm
> > samba ##################################################
> > [root@sphinx local]# rpm -ql samba-2.0.5a-3mdk.src.rpm
> > package samba-2.0.5a-3mdk.src.rpm is not installed
> SRPMS don't show up as being installed in the RPM database.
> look in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS (I think it is the same on Mandrake)
> then do an rpm -ba foo.spec (and watch the package build)
> this should leave a RPM and SRPM in the appropriate dirs under
> the /usr/src/redhat/ tree.
>
> or just rpm --rebuild foo.src.rpm then look in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/*
> for the binary RPM.
it should build an i586 rpm by default.
> Shane Owenby
> IBM Linux Technology Center
>
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