From the rpm man page:Greg Meyer wrote:
On Saturday 19 March 2005 10:05 am, Tom wrote:
James Henry Maiewski wrote:
Hello,
I downloaded kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm to see what I could see, but when I try to install it, it says "everything already installed." If these are supposed to go in /usr(/local)/src they are empty. How is the installation of .src.rpm files supposed to work?
With an advance of thanks, James Henry Maiewski
src.rpm's are not to be installed (tho they can be). You can compile the rpms contained in the src.rpm by doin (as root)
'rpm --rebuild kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm'
Not to be too picky, but technically, rpm is deprecated and rpmbuild --rebuild is preferred because it has been split into separate packages.
hmmm... tell me more.
# rpm --rebuild mplayer-fonts-1.0-10mdk.src.rpm ... <snip> ... Wrote: /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/noarch/mplayer-fonts-1.0-10mdk.noarch.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.1910 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + cd mplayer-fonts-1.0 + rm -rf /var/tmp/mplayer-fonts-buildroot + exit 0 Executing(--clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.1910 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + rm -rf mplayer-fonts-1.0 + exit 0
# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/noarch/mplayer-fonts-1.0-10mdk.noarch.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:mplayer-fonts ########################################### [100%]
Are you sugesting I should'a used 'rpmbuild --rebuild mpla<Tab>' ?
FWIW, the system is as current as can be (cooker 10.2) 2.6.11-2mdkK74 preempt K7 gcc-3.4 (rpm-build-4.2.3-9mdk)
LEGACY ISSUES
Executing rpmbuild
The build modes of rpm are now resident in the /usr/bin/rpmbuild
executable. Although legacy compatibility provided by the popt
aliases below has been adequate, the compatibility is not
perfect; hence build mode compatibility through popt aliases is
being removed from rpm.
Install the rpmbuild package, and see rpmbuild(8) for
documentation of all the rpm build modes previously documented
here in rpm(8). Add the following lines to /etc/popt if you wish to continue
invoking rpmbuild from the rpm command line:It then goes into a table that you can read for your self if you are interested.
Mikkel --
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