A source rpm makes no entries to the rpm database, so rpm -q won't
display anything.
I have NO CLUE why Red Hat doesn't do this by default (they should) but
you don't want to install src.rpm's as root (or build them as root).
create a directory in your home directory called rpm
Within that directory put the necessary subdirectories:
rpm/SPECS
rpm/BUILD
rpm/SOURCES
rpm/SRPMS
rpm/RPMS/[i386,i486,i586,i686,athlon,noarch]
rpm/tmp
once those are created - create a file in your home directory called
.rpmmacros and put the following in it:
%_topdir /home/you_user_name/rpm
%_tmppath %{_topdir}/tmp
That way - you can install src.rpm's and build rpm's without being root,
which is much safer to your system - especially if you are learning how
to program and messing with creating rpm's yourself.
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 03:15, Greg Stewart wrote:
> I've installed RH psyche in order to learn how to program on linux, and I've
> been trying to install source code, particularly that for vim.
>
> Running:
>
> rpm -i -v vim-6.1-14.src.rpm (as root from the package dir) prints out
>
> vim-6.1-14
>
> but rpm -q -v vim-6.1-14 indicates the package isn't installed. All
> that happens is that about 100 patch and tar.gz files etc are created in
> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/.
>
> It's as if some script was supposed to be run to amalgamate them and
> doesn't. Trying to install using redhat-config-packages doesn't do much
> better, except that an rpm -q will indicate the package installed - the
> files in /SOURCES/ remain the same unusable bunch...
>
> The machine isn't internet connected so I can't just download source willy
> nilly from the web. Any pointers would be very useful.
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