Just as a side note, apparently rpmbuild --rebuild *.src.rpm is the preferred way of rebuilding now...
That's what the RH guys tell me... Don't know what the difference is between rpm and rpmbuild... On Wednesday 12 June 2002 03:02 pm, Alfredo C.Lopez wrote: > Hi! > > El Mar 11 Jun 2002 22:26, escribiste: > > All, > > > > Now that I have a boxen that is kde3 only (as apposed to kde2) I've > > been trying to re-build some apps that are kde3 compatible but not yet > > built into rpms. My Q is How do you pass a prefix using rpm --rebuild? > > You must remember that --rebuild work only with src.rpms . > > rpm --rebuild loquesea-0.1.src.rpm > > > But may be you better install the src.rpm: > > rpm -ihv loquesea-.....src.rpm > > And then go to the /usr/src/RPM/SPEC directory and edit with vi the > loquesea.spec to see if you need to configure for example the location of > the qt libraries (/usr/lib/qt3) and the kde installation directory > (/opt/kde3) in the configure stage of the building ( and may be in the > packaging stage... I think that is the name. ) > I hope it helps.... > > Right now I'm messing around with this trying compile kde3 for mdk 7.2. > So... I was editing specs...... :) > > > Check of the man pages etc. Make it seem that this can be passed only > > for a relocatable rpm. Really just want to check and see if I'm off > > base or not. > > > > James > > ---------------------------------------- > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Description: > ----------------------------------------
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