On Saturday 15 May 2004 02:28 am, John wrote:

On Saturday 15 May 2004 00:17, Bob S. wrote:

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Hello SuSE folk,

Correct me, before I do it, if I'm wrong.

After building a rpm or doing a rebuild of an src.rpm the files in /usr/src/ are useless correct? The builds, specs, etc.?

Got a lot of stuff in those files which seem to be all intermingled from previous operations and is getting confusing. Can I just go in and clean them all out??

If you say yes, I may have another question in a day or so.

If you're talking about the /usr/src/RPMS etc. directories, then the way I do it is, when I download the latest src.rpm's of the same files in those dir's, I rebuild all the new src.rpm's, let them get put in the same directories, then I cd to that directory and look through them all to make sure htere's two of everything (one being the older rpm of course), then once I'm sure I have everything, I just rm all the old ones at one time, then I start installing the new ones with rpm -Uvh .rpm and then a SuSEconfig afterward, and I'm done. This is all on 8.2, so I'm not sure the dir's will all be exactly the same.

Thanks for your input John, but how about the files in SOURCES and SPEC. Don't know as I could differentiate between the old ones and the new one. The RPM files would not be difficult by looking at the build. What I really want to get rid of are all the files in Sources & Specs. Bob S.