On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 11:31:27PM +0100, Nick Murtagh wrote:
> > and got an rpm usage message. So I got a version 4.0.4 source RPM which of
> > course I couldn't rpm --rebuild but I installed the source RPM and built
> > from the source. Now rpm --rebuild says --rebuild: unknown option
>> install rpm-build ?
Thanks Nick - that'll do it. Why didn't somebody tell me that the building
parts were in a different package :-) ?
The rpm rpm is 3M and rpm-build is 150K - why does RH bother separating them ?
SuSE doesn't (though mind you, it still uses RPM ver. 3)
Niall
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