Re: [Pan-users] All the sudden, my Pan v0.12 broke on both of my Red Hat Linux 7.x boxes!

[Phillip Pi]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> > > I am trying SRPM method, but somehow my rpm doesn't know --rebuild? 
> > > 
> > > address@hidden download]# ls -all *.src.rpm 
> > > -rw-rw-r--    1 ant      ant       1648661 Jun 18 12:34 
> > > pan-0.12.0-1.src.rpm
> > > address@hidden download]# rpm --rebuild pan-0.12.0-1.src.rpm 
> > > pan-0.12.0-1.src.rpm: No such file or directory
> > > address@hidden download]# rpm --version
> > > RPM version 4.0.4
> 
> no, it's just not finding the target file for some reason. try specifying
> the full path to it.
> rpm --rebuild /home/jruser/download/pan-0.12.0-1.src.rpm
> 
> btw, you shouldn't have to be root to build an RPM. indeed you *shouldn't*
> be root when building rpms, because broken RPMs can overwrite your system's
> already-installed files, in the course of being built.
> 
> > Someone told me to try rpm --bb method, but that didn't work. I see it in 
> > man, but not in rpm --help. Argh! What's up with this? Grr.
> 
> rpm -Uvh target-0.1.src.rpm
> cd /usr/src/redhat
> rpm -bb SPECS/target.spec
> <wait for it to build>
> su 
> rpm -Uvh RPMS/i386/target-0.1.i386.rpm

I found out why --rebuild and -bb didn't work. I didn't have rpmbuild 
package. Now, they both work. Now, I must deal with dependencies. [sighs]