On Wednesday 18 July 2001 07:23, Craig Woods wrote:
> 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/"? 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.
>
> 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?
>
> 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......
>
> Thanks,
> Craig Woods
> UNIX SA
look in
/usr/src/RPM/RPMS
Civileme
