Slightly OT - rpm -bb problems

[Paul Howarth]

Mark Haney wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>> Mark Haney wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to build a nagios RPM from source, not on Fedora, but on 
>>> RHEL AS 2.1, but when I run 'rpm -bb nagios.spec' from the 
>>> /usr/src/redhat/SPECS directory it fails with a reply:
>>>
>>> nagios.spec: No such file or directory
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think this is anything more than something I'm missing as far 
>>> as building the RPM goes.  Anybody have any ideas?  Is it because 
>>> it's RHEL and not Fedora?  Or is it something simple?
>>
>>
>> It means you haven't put your spec file nagios.spec in the 
>> /usr/src/redhat/SPECS directory.
>>
>> Are you writing the spec yourself or using someone else's?
>>
>> Is RHEL 2.1 so old that it still uses "rpm" rather than "rpmbuild" for 
>> package-building btw?
>>
>> Paul.
>>
> The spec file is one from DAG's repository for nagios.  There's not a 
> latest binary for nagios built for RHEL 2.1.  When I ran rpmbuild I get 
> a 'command not found' error.  The spec file is in the correct location, 
> could it be I need the RPM devel package?

More likely an rpm-build package, if there is one. But it's a strange 
error message to give if that is indeed the problem.

Paul.