At 12:07 AM 12/19/99 +0100, Davor Cengija wrote:
>On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>
> >
> >Is there a trick to installing source RPMs? I
> >downloaded samba-2.0.5a-3mdk.src.rpm from one of the
> >mandrake mirrors, and installed it using 'rpm -ivh' (like all the binaries
> >I do successfully). When I then
> >query for the file list, I get told it isn't installed?
> >
> >[root@sphinx local]# rpm -ivh samba-2.0.5a-3mdk.src.rpm
> >samba
> ##################################################
> >[root@sphinx local]# rpm -ql samba-2.0.5a-3mdk.src.rpm
> >package samba-2.0.5a-3mdk.src.rpm is not installed
> >
> rpm --rebuild <filename>.src.rpm
>
> this will compile <filename>.i586.rpm in
> /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586 and then you need to install those
> binary files.
>
> man rpm is pretty useful.
Well, no it wasn't, or I wouldn't have asked. Believe me, I spent an hour
reading through the man page, and it said squat about source rpms :(
