On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 08:39, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > One thing it changes is that packages will place the sources, patches and > spec file in ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/package-name, rather than dumping all > packages in the same directory. (the spec file will be in the same > directory, instead of a SPECS directory.) This makes things much less > confusing. > > > 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... > > Once you have a non-root rpm environment set up, you can run > 'rpmbuild -bp package_name.spec' which will extract the source and apply > all the included patches. The complete patched source will then be > available in ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/package_name/ > > Hope that helps, > - -- > - -Michael >
Thanks for the link Michael this looks helpful. I tend to get in a hurry and just rebuild stuff as root ( but never on a production box ) Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
