On 26 May 1998, Jake Colman wrote:
> I wanted to upgrade some packages on my system and decided to downloaded source
> RPMs. Looking at the RPM MAN page, I thought that rpm --recompile would
> compile and install the package. I tried it, it recompiled but a rpm -q showed
> that the older package was still installed. I did a rpm --rebuild, generated a
> binary rpm, and the did a rpm --Uvh and successfully upgraded. What is the
> proper procedure for working with a SRPM?
What I usually do, possibly with too many steps :), is the following:
# rpm -ivh foo-1.0-1.src.rpm
foo ##################################################
# cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
# rpm -ba foo.spec
<Build output>
# rpm -ivh ../RPMS/<arch>/foo-1.0-1.<arch>.rpm
foo ##################################################
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