Thanks for that response Hal, I will check that out tonight. (When I reinstall RH8.0 again for the 4th time :-) ) Thanks, Wolf |-----Original Message----- |From: Hal Burgiss [mailto:hal@foobox.net] |Sent: Monday, 14 October 2002 04:13 pm |To: psyche-list@redhat.com |Subject: Re: Installing *.src.rpm's | | |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 ###################################################################### Attention: This e-mail message is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author. This e-mail has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal www.marshalsoftware.com ######################################################################
