-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 April 2003 09:24 pm, Darren R. Weber wrote: > Michael, > > I didn't really see anyone answer this directly for you. If you > already know then I appologise. That's OK, it wasn't my question. ;) I was just clarifying the link to the sourceforge site for whichcd. > I don't know all the ins and outs of rpms but usually for a source rpm > like you mentioned you can just run: > "rpmbuild --rebuild filename.src.rpm" > run it as root then if you check in the /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 > directory you will find the compiled rpm. You really shouldn't build RPMs as root. It's just an invitation for disaster. Settting up a non root rpm build environment is simple, and will save you when you make a mistake in a spec file that results in an 'rm -rf /' Instructions and a script to set it up: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/hack.html - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+pK+hn/07WoAb/SsRAvUzAJ9U41YvmukX2kg6kuxA3DBy9kXS+gCfQjWw tb6dv+1NqVwzsLaavUqhhD0= =lVAJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
