On Saturday, 2003.11.01, 14:17:05 +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> What is your distribution and rpm version?
Mandrake Linux 9.1, rpm-4.0.4
> It works with RH 7.2 and RPM version 4.0.3.
OK. I usually have no problem querying, mc-ing, installing, or
rebuilding srpms---regardless of whether the srpm is intended for a
particular distribution. And past srpms for fvwm and fvwm-themes worked
just fine. That's the only reason I thought there was a problem with
the files.
> To actually rebuild the binary rpm from source rpm, you should create
> one symbolic link at /tmp, this is to work around the problem that
> different distributions have different locations of /usr/src/redhat,
> /usr/src/RPM and so on.
I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the information.
> Anyway, you should try to solve this yourself, since I don't know how to
> create a better src rpm for you distro. If you fail, just download fvwm
> and fvwm-themes sources (use: cvs checkout -r version-0_7_0 fvwm-themes)
> and then "make rpm-dist" after the devel procedure of creating makefiles.
> The same for creating debs for different architectures ("make deb-dist"),
OK, will do.
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Norvell Spearman
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Received on Sat Nov 01 2003 - 13:48:23 GMT