On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Paul Howarth wrote: > Thomas E. Dukes wrote: > > Oooops, one more question. :-) > > > > If I just rebuilt the source rpm, then I guess I need to build a binary > > package after I install the newly rebuilt source package, right? > > Nope; if you "rpmbuild --rebuild" a src.rpm package you'll just get the binary > packages built on your system, no new src.rpm. It would be equivalent to > "rpmbuild -bb specfile". If you do "rpmbuild -ba specfile" you'll get a new > src.rpm but unless you've edited the specfile, it won't have any significant > differences to the src.rpm you started with. I assume that, since rpmbuild is run against the src.rpm file, the src.rpm file doesn't get installed thereby splitting off the .spec file. Is this correct? -- Bob Holtzman "If you think you're getting free lunch, ......check the price of the beer!"
