Slightly OT - rpm -bb problems

[Mark Haney]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> 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.
>
That's it exactly, the rpm-build package wasn't installed.  I _never_ 
knew that was a separate package.  Hmm, any day you learn something is a 
day you didn't waste.  Thanks.



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Mark Haney
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