On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 04:08:12PM +1000, Wolfgang Gill wrote:
> Does anyone know how .src.rpm's are now installed?? Since RPM doesn't seem
> to support the '--rebuild' option anymore. I've read through all 4 RH8.0
> books that come with the RH8.0 Professional distribution. I need to rebuild
> some of these RPM's.
>From the rpm man page:
LEGACY ISSUES
Executing rpmbuild
The build modes of rpm are now resident in the
/usr/bin/rpmbuild executable. Although legacy compatibility
provided by the popt aliases below has been adequate, the
compatibility is not perfect; hence build mode compatibility
through popt aliases is being removed from rpm. Install the
rpmbuild package, and see rpmbuild(8) for documentation of all
the rpm build modes previously documented here in rpm(8).
Add the following lines to /etc/popt if you wish to continue
invoking rpmbuild from the rpm command line:
--
Hal Burgiss
