On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:48:12PM +1100, Kevin Saenz wrote: > Hi all, > > In case anyone wants or needs to know I have just found out why I can > not build from source using rpms > Under Mandrake. A big thanks to all who tried to help. > I went onto a redhat box and ran rpm --help to find a great deal more > information that what is given > in rpm --help on a mandrake box. > > Under Mandrake 8.1 you miss the -t -b and a heap of other options this > leaves something very restrictive > IMO. I am a bit of a source junkie and at least feel at times source > compiled on my machine could be > a little better than that compiled on someone elses. Then again it's > horses for courses.
Sounds like you are missing the rpm-build package. The rpm helper app got depreciated a long time ago... I think a couple of years even. There are now several apps to do the different rpm tasks: rpm rpmbuild rpme rpmquery rpmu rpm2cpio rpmdb rpmi rpmsign rpmverify A main problem is that the maximum rpm book makes no mention of this. A quote from a Jeff Johnson, the rpm maintainer: "The 'shortcuts' have been introduced to simplify all the myriad options to rpm by factoring option subsets onto a small number of helpers. Try rpmbuild --help and compare to rpm --help In addition, the build modes have been split into a seperate executable because building packages and installing packages are quite different, and have different needs/uses."
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