On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 03:54:11 +0100
"Terje J. Hanssen"
Thank you, Ivan. I was able to build both rpms and install rdesktop 1.3 and tsclient 0.132 on my SuSE9/i686.
Two questions:
1) Would this also be possible using YaST->Install and remove software?
I'm not sure... I sincerely never tried to install/uninstall packages I built by myself and I noticed that packages updated by apt keep on being proposed by YOU even if the installed version is the same from the one YOU would like to install. *Maybe* once you've built the package you should "Change Source of Installation" and add the path of the rpm and then "Install and Remove Software" if you want to let YaST know what you've installed so it will be able to remove it. I never did, This is just an hypothesis.
2) However, on the Sun Java Desktop System (SJDS based on SuSE8) I wasn't able to use rpmbuild (: command not found). According to the SuSE9 Admin Guide, rpmbuild was new with version 4 of the RPM package manager. How are the earlier commands for building correspondingly rpms on SJDS/SuSE8?
rpm -ba [spec file] --target [i386...] But you should start from a different spec file for different version of SUSE.