On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, shane c branch wrote: > I don't have much experience with source rpms, or rpms in general. I downloaded > the src rpm package for the kernel but I can't seem to figure out how to work > with it. The Red Hat site mentioned using rpm -ivh <filename> but using this > command reports an error: can't create /usr/src/.... path. I then copied the > file to /usr/src and tried agian, but no luck. > > I have always compiled kernels from a source tarball, but I wanted to try this > thinking it might be easier for a friend of mine to work with. Any help is > appreciated. As root, you would usually run "rpmbuild name-of.src.rpm" Alternatively, you could use "rpm -i name-of.src.rpm" to install the src.rpm, then go to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS, and run "rpmbuild -ba package-name.spec". Either way, the resulting binary RPMs will be placed in the /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 directory (could also be i686 or some such, but most likely in hte i386 subdirectory). -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe
