-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 May 2003 10:13, Anders Johansson wrote:
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
Okay, okay! No need to bite my head off. I just read it wrong I guess, and all I was trying to do was add my small piece of copper to the 'help', it isn't like I accused you of being an axe murderer or something. As for you Fergus, I can't remember if I chose all of KDE or not. Usually I go for picking all the things I want, instead of letting those 'packaged' selections lump a bunch of stuff onto my hdd that I don't want or use, heh. I thought for sure though that kpackage would be a part of kde no matter what one did. Strange. Oh well, at least everything's been answered...I think. John - -- A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless, just like M$N. My Penguin eats butterflies. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+u1v1H5oDXyLKXKQRArfdAJ9F/ih20OY8BPwEpJre5TNlI/1uGQCfQEOC qHWj32IgQCXTlwzYw9VLbAM= =mBUC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----