RMP V 4.0x

[Charles Rishel]

This looks to be what is wrong.  Just did a new install on a co-worker's 
box the other night, and noticed that even though I specified RPM to be 
installed, it did not include the rpm-build package by default.  Took a 
look at my friend's box as you listed, and sure enough the rpm-build 
package is not installed.

I still hope to make it up to one of the meetings one of these Sunday's.. 
Wish I could just get weekends off from work.  Due to low seniority, I get 
one of those 'lovely' schedules.. fortunately I work 4 10 hour days, bad 
thing is that I only get '(Wednes|Thurs|Fri)day's off.  Due to choose 
schedules again soon, maybe I will get extremely lucky and actually get one 
day off during the weekend.

Anyway, thanks for the info,
Chaz®


At 08:59 AM 2/8/02 -0500, you wrote:

>Do an # rpm -qa | grep rpm
>
>rpm-4.0.3-1.04  - installs the rpm binaries & rpm database
>rpm-build-4.0.3-1.04    - installs capability to build src rpms
>rpm-devel-4.0.3-1.04    - rpm src for (for devel purposes)
>
>So basically, check to see if you have the rpm-build rpm installed.  This
>might be the problem.
>
> > ok.. on to my question,
> > Has anyone had problems running RPM version 4.0x and above?  A friend and I
> > installed MD8.1 on his system and it installed v4.0x of RPM.. and it does
> > not recongize the --rebuild switch to build source RPM's.  I have V3.03 and
> > have no problems building source packages.  The man file and the help for
> > the command both show the --rebuild switch, but it won't build it.  He gets
> > the standard error that he used an unknown switch and it does not list
> > --rebuild there.  Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem or
> > noticed this on their version of RPM.
> >
> > Chaz®
> >
> >
>
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>Dege
>
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