On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Thomas Dodd wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >
> > On 2001-07-30, Thomas Dodd wrote:
> > >Especially if --rebuild creates the src.rpm.
> > >I already have the src.rpm, why make another?
> >
> > See bug report. :) The Red Hat guy has closed it already because he
> > didn't even try to understand me.
>
> Sometimes support guys are slow at understnding technicaly
> adept users :)
Hey... I resemble that remark!
Besides, developers read bugzilla reports, not support guys.
> > I've been using --recompile for ages to build binary rpms.
> > Now, that I've browsed the documentation, I wonder why they state
> > that --recompile would not create any packages. This is surely
> > a bug in the docs.
>
> Probably. The docs say what it opnce dodi, and was supposed to
> do. Then someone decided to change it, but never fixed the docs.
> (Documentation is always slow to get updated)
>
> I never noticed it since I seldom use either of those options.
> I'm usuall updating a package for myself, that Red Hat is
> slow to do/ won't do. Like the kernel rpms, or gnucash.
>
> I ausuall use the -bb and -ba options as I fix/add patches to
> the spec files.
I have a few bugs posted against rpm myself- which version are you using?
--
Chris Kloiber, RHCE
Enterprise Support - Red Hat, Inc.
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