[olug] rpm -bb option

Jazz Lover jzlvr at home.com
Sat Oct 27 01:26:47 UTC 2001


Thanks Jon, That worked.

Daryl


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Larsen" <jlarsen at cas-online.com>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: [olug] rpm -bb option


>
> Daryl,
>
> Using the rpm -bb option assumes that you have already installed the rpm
> package using rpm -ivh.  In the case of using Red Hat, after you have
> installed the src rpm, cd to /usr/src/redhat, then run rpm -bb
> SPECS/whatever.spec
>
> Or, to save a few steps do this:
>
> rpm --rebuild program.1.1.1.src.rpm
>
> This will install, build, and write out the new rpm(s) to
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/archtype
>
> where archtype can be athlon, i386, etc.
>
> (note - you may have more than one binary rpm file when finished)
>
> Hope that helps....
> Jon L.
>
>
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Jazz Lover wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 07:40:11 -0500
> > From: Jazz Lover <jzlvr at home.com>
> > Reply-To: olug at bstc.net
> > To: olug at bstc.net
> > Subject: [olug] rpm -bb option
> >
> > Has anyone every built a binary rpm package to install?  I found a site
that has all of the drivers for the different network cards.  They're all
bundled together in a rpm package.  The instructions say to use rpm -bb to
build a binary of the rpm, but I get an error message that says "This does
not appear to be an specfile".  Inside the rpm are two files.  One is the
spec file, while the other is a .gz file.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Daryl Rose
> > jzlvr at home.com
> >
>
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