On 15-Mar-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Marco Calistri wrote:
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>> Hello Lawson,it is a SOURCE!
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>> After I write my SPEC file I do:"rpm -bs <file.spec>"
>
> That will build a source rpm, I think. Installing a source rpm will not
> necessarily install the package, but place it in /usr/src/rpm (or maybe
> RPM, or a distro name - I was using an rpm from a Slackware rpm.tgz
> pacage) in a position to be built with rpm -bi, -ba, or -bb.
Yes I know,infact I get a src.rpm package on which I then do:
rpm --rebuild <src.rpm>
so I obtain a i386.rpm package into /RPMS/i386 ;)
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>> I think I'am using a source:
>> the folder contains headers,objects,Makefile and so on.
>
> That would be about right.
>>
>> Thank you very much Lawson.
>>
>> Marco
>>
> Having trouble with the latest patches to Wine too. It never rains but
> it pours. If you like I could mail you safe-2.0.8.1.src.tar.gz which
> might serve as a small example - I never released it as an rpm because
> to do so I would have to make decisions I think should be up to the
> system administrator, not the packager - but probably you could find
> better examples in the source section of an rpm-based distro. I learned
> what I know about rpms from - I think it was which.src.rpm from the
> SRPMS directory of CheapBytes RedHat 5.0. There realy was a
> which.src.rpm, so my Slackware system has a which that finds every
> binary on the path of a given name, not just the first.
>
> Lawson
I have red rpm How-To so now I have a cleaner idea,but I would have to
experiment anyway!
Many Thanks!
Marco.
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