On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 06:20:04PM +0100, Jos Vos wrote:
> [...] When rebuilding a src.rpm,
> use --rebuild with the src.rpm i.s.o. specifying a spec file.
Hmm, I've been using
rpmbuild -bs path/to/myspecfile.spec
to build the .src.rpm. Is that missing anything?
> There is no "bootstrap" needed, as long as you have a working
> bootstrap system (you have FC3 and RHEL3 rebuilders use a public
> beta). For RHEL3, there is the problem that not everything build
> at the first run and you have to install some generated packages
> first, before building others. When rebuilding a completely
> available distro, this should not be the case.
And herein lies the problem. What if the host distro that you
use to do he build is not binary compatible with the distro that
use build? Maybe different flags, linker, glibc, etc?
--
Dimi.
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