On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, David Kewley wrote: > On Monday 07 June 2004 11:25, Tom Diehl wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Chris Kloiber wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 20:48, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 04:22, Chris Kloiber wrote: > > > > > I don't have it on my screen anymore to copy, but having rebuilt the > > > > > 422 kernel, I am getting errors for unpackaged debug files like > > > > > /usr/lib/debug/<kernel-ver>/System.Map and others. I see that most of > > > > > the logic for building the kernel-debuginfo rpm has vanished, perhaps > > > > > this is just a holdover? > > > > > > > > eh no nothing changed here in a looong time... > > > > is your rpm setup sane ?? > > > > > > I guess that depends. I was, for the first time in a long time, trying a > > > non-root build using Mike Harris' rpmbuild-nonroot-1.0.tar.gz. > > > > As much as I like his way of setting up a non-root rpm build I have been > > unable to get it to do things like rpmbuild --rebuild somerpm.src.rpm. It > > does not expand some of the variables. If you find a way to keep his > > directory structure and get the above working please let me know how you > > did it. It is a pita to have to install a src.rpm just to rebuild it. Other > > than that it works great for me. > > rpmbuild --rebuild works fine here (just tried it using rawhide > ed-0.2-35.i386.rpm), under FC2 with MH's ~/rpmbuild structure & macros. But > even if it didn't work for me, personally I don't find it a pita to do Actually I had a brain fart. What I was thinking of was rpmbuild -ta tarball. I agree --rebuild works just fine. > rpm -i foo-1.0-1.src.rpm > cd ~/rpmbuild/foo-1.0 > rpmbuild -ba foo.spec > > compared to > > rpmbuild --rebuild foo-1.0-1.src.rpm > > Pretty minor extra typing in my typical workday. :) True but if a feature is there I would like to be able to use it. I will take anything I can to save time. That way I can spend more time putting out other fires. :-) Tom
