AW: RPM option -ba

Wengrzik, Andreas Wengrzik at ewr.de
Tue Mar 16 11:57:17 UTC 2004


>Redhat 9 (I think, maybe 8?) separated the commands for unpacking and 
>repacking rpms. Previously
>rpm -ba was to build an rpm from a spec file. You now need to use the 
>rpmbuild function.

>If you're dealing with a source rpm, just type in

>	rpmbuild --rebuild xxxx.srpm

>It will dump rpm's in your /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/ix86 directory.
>Make sure you are root when you do this.

>Cheers,
>Daniel


Hey, thanks a lot! Thats the right way!!
But now some depencies are missed... is there an option to download them with a shell, 
like the cpan shell?





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