Slightly OT - rpm -bb problems

[Mark Haney]

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?



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