On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:57:17 +1300 Col <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > >I want to build a binary rpm from a source rpm, without installing the > >binaries on the system, ie I don't want to risk mucking up my existing > >installation of the earlier version of same package. > > > > > >all of the rpm -b options seem to want to build, install, then package. > >I want to just build then package, > > > >anyone know how to do this? > > > >my reference for all this is here: > > > >http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-rpm-b-command.html > >
yeah but that installs it as well (I think) > > > > > > > Try something like > $rpmbuild --rebuild --target=athlon file.src.rpm > and find the result in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/ > I had great plans to optimise redhat once :) > get gentoo instead > Col >
