[OLUG] stupid question on source files

[Eric Penne]

I download everything with binary format through
ncftp.  I ignore the ascii download altogether.

--- ktb <xyf at inetnebr.com> wrote:
> I've been trying to download and install
> XFree86-3.3.6 so I can get my i810
> chipset to work with 'X' on my Redhat side.  I tried
> the binary rpm and it
> wouldn't update even if "forced."  Got a "can't
> install" or something, it
> has been a while.  I just figured it was a corrupted
> file because I kept
> getting knocked off line and it took hours and hours
> to get the file.
> Anyway I downloaded the source and tried to build
> that.  I get an error when
> I use "rpm-bl <foo.src.rpm>" to do a list check,
> "File contains non-printable characters ( i ):
> <foo.src.rpm>"
> 
> I think I set ncftp2 to type ascii thinking source
> files were text.  Maybe
> this has corrupted this file so I can't build it? 
> When I look at the file
> with 'less' there seems to be binary symbols
> contained in the file.  Should
> I download an src file in binary format?  When I
> tried 'rpm --recompile
> <foo.src.rpm>' I just got a prompt back right away
> with a message that it
> had been created but obviously it hadn't.  I'm using
> Redhat 6.0.
> Thanks,
> kent
> 
> 
> 
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