[TriLUG] RPM weirdness

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Thu Jun 6 10:24:14 EDT 2002


On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 02:18, Scott Kennedy wrote:
> 
> I just installed RedHat 7.3 the other day.  I seem to be having trouble building and/or recompiling source RPMs.  I never had a problem doing this before, so I'm not sure what is up.  This is what happens:
> *************************************
> # rpm --rebuild (or --recompile) foo.src.rpm
> 
> foo.src.rpm: No such file or directory
> *************************************
> 
> This seems very strange to me since I am looking at the stupid things when I do this.  I even upgraded to rpm-4.1, but to no avail.  Has anyone seen this before? Is is a bug/problem? Am I going insane?  Am I missing something disturbingly obvious?  Anyway, thanks in advance.
> 
> Scott K
> 
> PS-Installing binary RPMs works fine.

I believe you need to install the rpm-build rpm.  

Tanner
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