On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 02:03, Bob Holtzman wrote: > 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? The src.rpm gets installed, then built, then removed. If the build fails the installed src.rpm (i.e. spec, sources, part-built package) is left in your build area and you can look at the spec file etc. to try to figure out what went wrong. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
