Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-20 Thread James Henry Maiewski
On Saturday 19 March 2005 3:50 pm, Tom wrote: Now, James, when you installed the system did you select Development ? Without those additions to your system you probly can't compile anything. Other questions: are you just doin all this as an exercise? an why don't you just use

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-20 Thread Tom
James Henry Maiewski wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2005 3:50 pm, Tom wrote: Now, James, when you installed the system did you select Development ? Without those additions to your system you probly can't compile anything. Other questions: are you just doin all this as an exercise? an why

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
James Henry Maiewski wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2005 3:50 pm, Tom wrote: Now, James, when you installed the system did you select Development ? Without those additions to your system you probly can't compile anything. Other questions: are you just doin all this as an exercise? an why

[newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread James Henry Maiewski
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

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 19 March 2005 09:01 am, 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

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Tom
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

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
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

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Tom
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

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Tom
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Tom wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Tom wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread James Henry Maiewski
Hello, I thank you both for this information, but I'm not getting anything out of this package. the rpm --rebuild gives: error: kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm cannot be installed the same happens with rpmbuild --rebuild (both as root and otherwise). I assume that the

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Tom
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Tom wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Tom wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I thank you both for this information, but I'm not getting anything out of this package. the rpm --rebuild gives: error: kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm cannot be installed the same happens with rpmbuild --rebuild (both as root and otherwise). I assume

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Well, on my 10.1 system, they are actualy in /usr/lib/rom/rpmpopt-4.2.2 and if I wanted to track it down, there is probably another file symlinked to it, that is defined in rpmrc, but I don't feel like going through all the effort. There are a lot of

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread James Henry Maiewski
On Saturday 19 March 2005 3:12 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: What happens if you run rpm --checksig kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm? This will check the package. Mikkel kdeutils-3.2-18.1.100mdk.src.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#22458a98) oh oh spaghetti-o!

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Tom
James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I thank you both for this information, but I'm not getting anything out of this package. the rpm --rebuild gives: error: kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm cannot be installed the same happens with rpmbuild --rebuild (both as root and otherwise). I assume

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Tom
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Tom wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Well, on my 10.1 system, they are actualy in /usr/lib/rom/rpmpopt-4.2.2 and if I wanted to track it down, there is probably another file symlinked to it, that is defined in rpmrc, but I don't feel like going through all the

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom wrote: That was mostly for my own curiousity, specially since Greg an Mikkel have some misgiving about usin 'rpm --rebuild' All I can say is Works for Me an always has I think the point is more that rpm --rebuild is calling rpmbuild to do the work. Because if this, if you do not

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Tom
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Tom wrote: That was mostly for my own curiousity, specially since Greg an Mikkel have some misgiving about usin 'rpm --rebuild' All I can say is Works for Me an always has I think the point is more that rpm --rebuild is calling rpmbuild to do the work.

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 19 March 2005 01:59 pm, Tom wrote: 'hatched'? not sure what you mean Greg. I know what you meant, but I was just making light of the fact that you used the word contained when describing the src.rpm. I was trying to be funny. The src.rpm will build _all_ the rpms contained in

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 19 March 2005 01:59 pm, Tom wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: 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 ...

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Tom
Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2005 01:59 pm, Tom wrote: Â Â 'hatched'? Â not sure what you mean Greg. I know what you meant, but I was just making light of the fact that you used the word contained when describing the src.rpm. I was trying to be funny. The src.rpm will build _all_