On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Maybe someone can fill in the dates? > rpm - both package management and package building functions > > rpmbuild split off from rpm - rpm still accepts build options for > backwards compatibility, but calls rpmbuild to do the work. > > rpm no longer recognizes the build options. i would have thought the rpm changelog would have mentioned that: $ rpm -q --changelog rpm but that log simply stops back in dec of 2004. how odd. and i'm sure that split was already well-established by that time. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================