On 22.11.2011 11:57, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > I stumbled over problems using a downloaded epm 4.2 > (http://www.epmhome.org), build and install it on a Fedora 16 system > (rpm based). > > The epm call failed to build the rpm packages. It seems that epm > triggers /bin/rpm with some parameters that are not accepted. I don't > understand why at the moment.
/bin/rpm on a recent Fedora can not build packages, it can only do the things necessary on a running system: install etc.; there is an extra package "rpm-build" with a /usr/bin/rpmbuild program that is used to build packages. IIRC i once changed configure to complain if you have a /bin/rpm that cannot build and no rpmbuild, perhaps that check bitrotted... [ i have no idea why we use a "patched" epm, or whether an unpatched epm would work ] regards, michael
