--On Sunday, October 23, 2005 8:38 AM -0500 akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
You place the src.rpm in the directory /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS (this is not essential but makes things more organized). Then you process the file by running: rpm -ivh ...src.rpm
Not exactly. /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS is an *output* directory where an SRPM is generated from a set of source tarballs, patches, and a spec file. You can toss the original SRPM (.src.rpm) wherever is convenient. I like to put mine in /usr/src/redhat/Downloads/<source>, eg. /usr/src/redhat/Downloads/Fedora/4/updates, and then rebuild from there. If you then run "rpmbuild -ba foo.src.rpm", the new repackaged foo.src.rpm will be written to /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS.
