Kernel Rebuild Question

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:

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> Satish Balay wrote:
> | On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:
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> |>Just curious, if he is using the --rebuild option, where's he going to
> |>get the *.spec file?
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> | If you modify the specfile - use:
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> | rpmbuild -ba foo.spec
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> | Satish
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> Yes, I know that. But when you use 'rpmbuild --rebuild *.src.rpm' you
> don't really have access to the *.spec file since it's contained in the
> *src.rpm. If you want to edit the *.spec file, wouldn't you have to:
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> 1. install the *.src.rpm
> 2. edit the *.spec
> 3. use rpmbuild -ba *
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> Is there a simpler way? without having to install the sources and still
> letting rpmbuild automate the whole process through the --rebuild option?


rpmbuild --rebuild foo.src.rpm

is equivalent to:

rpm -ih foo.src.rpm
rpmbuild -bb foo.spec

Not sure what you want to simplify.

Satish