[KLUG Members] building from rpm source
Tony Gettig
members@kalamazoolinux.org
02 Jun 2002 23:17:32 -0400
One final note on this thread: I downloaded a different source package
and rpm --rebuild worked perfectly. Dropped the app and the devel rpm's
in the right place and I installed it no problem. I think maybe there
was something wrong with the first src.rpm I tried.
Tony
On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 14:00, Tony Gettig wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 13:30, Adam Williams wrote:
> > >Yep, sorry about that. I'm actually doing this (as root):
> > >rpm -ivh mypackage.src.rpm
> > >rpm --rebuild mypackage.src.rpm
> >
> > This (the second one) should have caused a rebuild and dumped the
> > resulting RPM in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/
>
> That's what I thought, but that darned error about tar and the -I option
> kept popping up.
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