Hi,
Just wanted to thank everyone who responded. It saved me many additional
hours of unproductive frustration! I've got everything set up cleanly,
rpmbuilt and made the source (all immensely satisfying), and found where I
was going wrong in my use of documentation...
cheers,
Greg
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On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 08:39, Michael Fratoni wrote:
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> One thing it changes is that packages will place the sources, patches and
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> packages in the same directory. (the sp
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On Saturday 01 March 2003 06:15 am, 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.
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> Running:
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> rpm -i -v vim-6.1-14.src.rpm (as ro
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 direct
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On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 11:15:33 -, 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
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 ins
