not finding rpmbuild

Jos Vos jos at xos.nl
Tue Oct 23 06:14:53 UTC 2007


On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 06:24:26PM -0400, Andrew Parker wrote:

> > rpmbuild is not there.
> 
> yum install rpm-build
> 
> nice bit of inconsistency there

What is inconsistent?  That the package is named different than one
of the executables in it?  rpm-build is just a subpackage of rpm
and thus has a dash in it.  Most commands are not owned by a package
with the same name.

You can also do "yum install /usr/bin/rpmbuild", if you like.

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