Re: building an rpm from souce without installing

[Col]

Nick Rout wrote:

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)
 

$rpm -qa | grep testfilefrompreviouspost
shows that it's not installed.
 



     

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

 

I did :)

Col