Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 08:12:05AM -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
I seem to remember that there was an rpm command that could be run to take an
rpm not built for FC4 and rebuild it for FC4 installation - or something to
that effect. I read through the man rpm but didn't see anything that clicked.
I tried a couple of archive searches but nothing popped up. Am I missing the
obvious? What I have is an rpm built for PCLinuxOS which is a derivative of
Mandriva - I'm told that those rpm's can generally be used in FC4 as there is
a distant relationship in the distros.
When using rpmbuild --rebuild *.src.rpm with foreign SRPMs, you may
want to be aware of the macro differences. See my post to rpm-list in a
thread about macro differences between distros:
and better than "rpmbuild --rebuild" is "rpm -i" after which you inspect
the spec and config files for hazards. Then, "rpm -ba "
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John
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