> > 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. > No I don't have rpmbuild, because I could be bothered trying to find out what was exactly wrong. I downloaded the source for db3 and rpm compiled both and now I have a real and working rpm system. :)
> 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 I have rpm-4.0.3 and now it behaves like redhat's rpm rather than mandrakes rpm :) > > 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." > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Saenz Security Analyst mobile: +61418455661 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
