Re: Working with SRC RPMS

1998-05-26 Thread Jake Colman
> "Kelley" == Kelley L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kelley> I used to do it this way myself, until I found out about, rpm Kelley> --rebuild foo-1.0-1.src.rpm Well that's what I do too. So this is the accepted practise? Build a binary RPM from the source RPM and then install/upgra

Working with SRC RPMS

1998-05-26 Thread Jake Colman
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 --rebuil

Re: Working with SRC RPMS

1998-05-26 Thread Kelley L.
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Jakob 'Sparky' Kaivo wrote: > 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

Re: Working with SRC RPMS

1998-05-26 Thread Jakob 'Sparky' Kaivo
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