I need a newer version of perl on a RHL 6.2 box so I download the source tarball for perl 5.8. trying to build an rpm from it (this is the forst time I have tried this) I get the following
[root@compaq2 perl]# rpm --ta stable.tar.gz error: Name field must be present in package: (main package) error: Version field must be present in package: (main package) error: Release field must be present in package: (main package) error: Summary field must be present in package: (main package) error: Group field must be present in package: (main package) error: License field must be present in package: (main package) hmm so I looked in the SPEC dir [root@compaq2 perl]# cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ [root@compaq2 SPECS]# ls -al total 128 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 11 13:01 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Mar 13 2001 .. -rw-r----- 1 root root 74241 Mar 30 2001 XFree86.spec -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1111 Aug 15 2001 elevate.spec -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 27511 Jun 26 09:08 openssh.spec -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 994 Aug 14 2001 pavuk.spec -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3118 Mar 29 1999 tar.spec -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 11 13:00 tar: *.spec: Not found in archive I am assuming that this means that there is no spec file in the tarball. can I use this at all to build an rpm? If not, can I simply build a 5.6.1 rpm from the src rpm included with 7.x for my 6.2 system? Any tips appreciated Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
