Re: building RPM's...

2004-06-28 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, Nick Rout wrote: chris, cacel all that other crap, use rpmrebuild. 1. get it here: http://rpmrebuild.sourceforge.net/ 2. install it (as root) rpm -Uvh rpmrebuild-1.4.6-4rpm4.noarch.rpm 3. read the man page, or just use it; rpm --rpmrebuild --batch gimp 4. transfer the newly built rpm to t

Re: building RPM's...

2004-06-28 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: Oops!! Sorry all, I reread the original post and realised that Chris wants Gimp 2. Probably partly my bad...I tend to waffle, and no-one wants a life story to read! :-) -- Kind regards, Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch, New Zealand. Canterbury Horse Taxis. ht

Re: building RPM's...

2004-06-27 Thread Nick Rout
chris, cacel all that other crap, use rpmrebuild. 1. get it here: http://rpmrebuild.sourceforge.net/ 2. install it (as root) rpm -Uvh rpmrebuild-1.4.6-4rpm4.noarch.rpm 3. read the man page, or just use it; rpm --rpmrebuild --batch gimp 4. transfer the newly built rpm to the new machine. eas

RE: building RPM's...

2004-06-27 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
Oops!! Sorry all, I reread the original post and realised that Chris wants Gimp 2. My bad. Regards, Robert -Original Message- From: Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) Sent: Monday, 28 June 2004 3:24 p.m. To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: building RPM's

RE: building RPM's...

2004-06-27 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
GIMP is on Mandrake 10.0 disc one anyway. Regards, Robert in fact you could have downloaded the rpm by now ;-) -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: building RPM's...

2004-06-27 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:50:52 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > think laterally. use the output you already have from rpm -ql to build a > tar file > > tar -cvzf qimp.tgz $(rpm -ql gimp) (except that should obviously be Gimp.tgz not Qimp.tgz) > > gives you a nicely zipped tar file c

Re: building RPM's...

2004-06-27 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 13:54:33 +0100 Chris Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > Nick Rout wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 20:00, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > > > >>across from my new computer, since most apps I've downloaded the > >>rpm or source manually. Gimp 2.0 however came from

Re: building RPM's...

2004-06-27 Thread Nick Rout
chris, your time is set wrong, see below (we are not +0100) On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 09:00:09 +0100 Chris Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm setting up my old computer (Duron 1100) with Mandrake 10.0 > official, so that I can sell it. I also wish to go to town on > setting it u

Re: building RPM's...

2004-06-26 Thread Chad
Nick Rout wrote: > On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 20:00, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I'm setting up my old computer (Duron 1100) with Mandrake 10.0 > > official, so that I can sell it. I also wish to go to town on > > setting it up, with the best software so that the new owner is > > gonna

Re: building RPM's...

2004-06-26 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 20:00, Chris Wilkinson wrote: across from my new computer, since most apps I've downloaded the rpm or source manually. Gimp 2.0 however came from contrib using rpmdrake, so there is no single rpm file to transfer... does rpmdrake not keep the rpm's o

Re: building RPM's...

2004-06-26 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 20:00, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm setting up my old computer (Duron 1100) with Mandrake 10.0 > official, so that I can sell it. I also wish to go to town on > setting it up, with the best software so that the new owner is > gonna get the best intro to linux! I

building RPM's...

2004-06-26 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, I'm setting up my old computer (Duron 1100) with Mandrake 10.0 official, so that I can sell it. I also wish to go to town on setting it up, with the best software so that the new owner is gonna get the best intro to linux! I hope to LAN all those apps across from my new computer, since mo