Rpmbuild question
Bob Holtzman
holtzm at sonic.net
Fri Aug 27 01:03:47 UTC 2004
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
> > Oooops, one more question. :-)
> >
> > If I just rebuilt the source rpm, then I guess I need to build a binary
> > package after I install the newly rebuilt source package, right?
>
> Nope; if you "rpmbuild --rebuild" a src.rpm package you'll just get the binary
> packages built on your system, no new src.rpm. It would be equivalent to
> "rpmbuild -bb specfile". If you do "rpmbuild -ba specfile" you'll get a new
> src.rpm but unless you've edited the specfile, it won't have any significant
> differences to the src.rpm you started with.
I assume that, since rpmbuild is run against the src.rpm file, the src.rpm
file doesn't get installed thereby splitting off the .spec file. Is this
correct?
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Bob Holtzman
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