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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Craig Woods
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:24 AM
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Subject: [expert] Working with src rpms
Greetings
When you do a "rpm --rebuild" on a xx.src.rpm, do you get a finished rpm
package in one of the folders named for your architecture, i.e.
"/usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/"?
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Yes that's the idea.
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After I ran the "rpm --rebuild" on a src rpm, all
of the files contained within the the src package went into the
"/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/" folder (some into folders SOURCES and SPECS too).
I
would have then needed to run a "./configure" and "make" to get the
package
to install.
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No. The only reason the source files would be left behind is a failed
compilation...
I.E. you are missing something the SRC.RPM build needs, etc.
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This process seemed like I was doing a "standard" compile and install on
a
tar ball src package. I did not do it because I did not want to by pass
the
RPM database. Because I did not get a binary RPM as a result of my "rpm
--rebuild" command, can I assume it did not work correctly?
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Correct.
Redo the --rebuild and look at the errors generated at the end.
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Still working on bind 9 for LMDK7.2, and I will not give up the ghost
:-) I do appreciate all the help rendered thus far......
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-JMS
