Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (616 mails)

[naurgrim <naurgrim@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello All -

On Tuesday 12 March 2002 19:32, Christopher Mahmood wrote:

> If you take the 6.4 source rpm for zlib
> (ftp.suse.com//pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/zq1/libz.spm) do:
>         rpm -ivh libz.spm
>         cd /usr/src/packages/SPECS
>         rpm -bb libz.spec

On Tuesday 12 March 2002 19:43, Jeremy Buchmann wrote:

> Yes, there is an easy way to do it.  Download the 6.4 SOURCE RPM (ends
> in .src.rpm)
>
> type rpm --rebuild libz-1.1.3-575.src.rpm
>
> This will compile libz and build a regular put the resulting RPM in
> /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386/
> (or whatever your arch is).

My thanks to both of you for your responses - I'll give these a shot, and 
hopefully squeeze some more life out of a machine that has served faithfully. 
If all goes well, you have saved me a headache.

Many thanks.