Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 22:19 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: >> >> I am trying to rebuild a rpm from its src.rpm, but getting the following error: >> >> $ rpmbuild --clean --rebuild myp-devel-0.14-0.src.rpm >> Installing myp-devel-0.14-0.src.rpm >> error: File /home/paulus/rpm/SOURCES # Where the tarballs and patches >> go./myp-devel-%{PACKAGE_VERSION}-%{PACKAGE_RELEASE}.tar.gz: No such >> file or directory >> > I don't understand the advice from others. If you look at man rpmbuild > you will see it is applies to spec files or tarfiles In your caswwe > before you apply rpmbuild you would have to turn you src rpm into a spec > file by executing: rpm -i myp-devel-0.14-0.src.rpm rpmbuild --rebuild takes a source package and does the installation for you; you can see it saying "Installing" in the first line of the output. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines