/usr/src/redhat missing

[Serge de Souza]

Ankush Grover wrote:
> Hey friends,
> 
>  Yestarday I installed FC3 through NFS .I wanted to test Mail Scanner
> with clamav + postfix.While installing MailScanner it said there are
> no /usr/src/redhat  directory.
> 
> I was surprised to see that redhat directory under /usr/src was not
> there.I created redhat directory under /usr/src .Under redhat
> directory I created RPMS,BUILD,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS subdirectories and
> under RPMS subdirectory I created athlon,i386,i486,i586,i686 and
> noarch directories.
> 
> I again tried to install MailScanner and it keep showing this while installing
> 
> Missing file /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/perl-Net-CIDR-0.10-1.noarch.rpm.
> Maybe it did not build correctly?
> 
> Attempting to build and install perl-IO-stringy-2.108-1
> --rebuild: unknown option
> 
> 
> It keeps coming for every rpm under MailScanner.I tried to install
> those .src.rpm manually.They got installed but when i  tried to build
> them
> 
> rpmbuild -ba perl-Net-CIDR-0.10-1.spec.
> 
> "It said file not found."
> 
> I forget to install the software development tools while installing
> the FC3 .But later on whatever libraries and  programs
> (make,binutils,gcc) which were needed by MailScanner I installed it.I
> have only selected KDE and X windows for Desktop Environment.
> 
> 
> a)I want to know the reason for /usr/src/redhat directory missing at
> the first place
> 
> b) What I have to do to make MailScanner installed properly.
> 
> Thanks & Regards
> 
> Ankush Grover
> 


You need to install the rpm-build rpm

Serge