RPM option -ba
Robert Marcano
robert at marcanoonline.com
Tue Mar 16 12:30:56 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 07:49, Daniel Stonier wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:37:04 +0100, Wengrzik, Andreas <Wengrzik at ewr.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > Anyone knows this line:
> >
> > rpm -ba ??
> >
>
> Redhat 9 (I think, maybe 8?) separated the commands for unpacking and
> repacking rpms. Previously
> rpm -ba was to build an rpm from a spec file. You now need to use the
> rpmbuild function.
>
> If you're dealing with a source rpm, just type in
>
> rpmbuild --rebuild xxxx.srpm
>
> It will dump rpm's in your /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/ix86 directory.
> Make sure you are root when you do this.
Or you can create the file $HOME/.rpmmacros with something like this:
%_topdir /home/robert/rpm
> Cheers,
> Daniel
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