On Thursday 08 May 2003 17:11, John wrote:
Like Anders said, you don't rpm -i an .src.rpm, with a src.rpm, in a konsole you need to do this (as root)... rpm -rebuild foo.src.rpm , then
Objection! that's not what I said. You can very well do rpm -i on a src.rpm, it just doesn't mean that you're "installint the rpm", it just means that the source, patches (if any) and spec file are copied to the /usr/src/packages tree, where you can fiddle with it, possibly creating a modified rpm. All I said was that you didn't have to do it over again every time you install a dependency --rebuild is of course another option, but then you get an identical rpm to the one SuSE provides, which usually isn't what you want if you're messing with the source