Rpmbuild question

[Paul Howarth]

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 02:03, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> 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?

The src.rpm gets installed, then built, then removed. If the build fails
the installed src.rpm (i.e. spec, sources, part-built package) is left
in your build area and you can look at the spec file etc. to try to
figure out what went wrong.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>