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[ILUG] Basic RPM building question

[ILUG] Basic RPM building question

John P. Looney john at antefacto.com
Thu Apr 18 11:25:19 IST 2002


On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:34:28AM +0100, Padraig Brady mentioned:
> If you want to tweak an existing package, then:
> $ rpm -i <src-name>.src.rpm
[...deleted...]
> rebuilds the source RPM
 
 Wow. One RPM, and the man's an expert. Impressive. 

 I publically announce that if Padraig *ever* has a problem with one of my
RPMs, he can no longer use the "I don't know how to use RPM" excuse not to
fix it himself. (Usually, I think it's fine, and can't be arsed fixing
it).

Kate

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