Friday, October 06, 2006

Refresher course in source rpm s

To install package.src.rpm, do
rpm --rebuild package.src.rpm
which will compile it and create an rpm file (binary) in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586/ or someplace (which will be printed out)
Then just do
rpm -Uvh
of the created rpm file.

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