Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

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On Monday 17 May 2010, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 15 May 2010, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>>> On 05/15/2010 11:22 AM, reg@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>>> I want to look at the individual files in a src rpm.
>>>> How do I 'rip it apart' ??
>>>
>>> rpm -qpl src.rpm
>>>
>>> should show you a list of the files in the RPM.  When you "install" it,
>>> they get installed in your rpmbuild sandbox under:  SPECS and SOURCES
>>> subdirectories.
>>>
>>>> Doing an install doesnt seem to be the answer, It does something, but I
>>>> have no idea where the bits and pieces are going.
>>>> They are NOT in /usr/src/redhat nor in /root/rpmbuild.
>>>
>>> You really shouldn't be playing with source RPMs as root.  Look in your
>>> user RPM sandbox:
>>
>> Then I'd suggest that doing so as a user be made possible.  I think its
>> asinine that I am prevented from building my kernels as a user, simply
>> because mkinird cannot be made to run if you are not root.
>
>You don't need mkinitrd to build a kernel, you need it to *install* a
> kernel, two different operations. After you do the make you can make
> modules_install and install with the -n option (if you wish) to inspect
> what they will do, or just "su -c "make modules_install modules"
>after the build is done.

Clarify here: I can do all that as the user.  What I can't do, until somebody 
decides to fix mkinitrd, is to run it as the user.  That is my specific 
bitch.  And I think its perfectly valid.  mkinitrd simply will not run for 
anybody but root.

>You didn't ask: I run my build in a script command, so I have the details
> of any error messages.

So do I, rigged so any error stops it right there, rather than having the 
error scroll off screen while I'm tending to an empty coffee cup.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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