> and /tmp is rarely the right place to put it; if a user
> accepts Red Hat's recommendation of 600 Mbytes for /,
> there simply is not enough space in /tmp to build
> anything more than toy rpms.
John,
Thanks for the insight. One thing I did as a newbie to Redhat was to
move my tmp directory t
John Summerfield wrote:
> and /tmp is rarely the right place to put it; if a user accepts Red Hat's
> recommendation of 600 Mbytes for /, there simply is not enough space in
> /tmp to build anything more han toy rpms.
This is one of my pet peeves with the current crop of spec files.
They should
>
> There is an updated HOWTO:
>
> http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/index.html
>
If that's it, why isn't the updated version on my RHL 6.1 system? I have
this:
RPM HOWTO (RPM at Idle)
Donnie Barnes, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
v2.0, 8 April 1997
--
Cheers
John Summerfield
http://os2.ami.com.a
> On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, John Summerfield wrote:
> [snip]
> > All that directory tree is owned by root (and /usr is supposed to be
> > mountable ro unless my reading of the fsstnd is seriously flawed) so you
> > may wish to customise RPM.
>
> RPM actually looks at the value of the %_topdir macro
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, John Summerfield wrote:
[snip]
> All that directory tree is owned by root (and /usr is supposed to be
> mountable ro unless my reading of the fsstnd is seriously flawed) so you
> may wish to customise RPM.
RPM actually looks at the value of the %_topdir macro to see where t
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 06:53:34AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> At this point, I will leave Red Hat to explain where the current
> documentation for RPM may be found; the book at www.rpm.org is
> seriously out of date; RPM 3 has significant changes that are not
> reflected in any documentation
> > > My question is, how would I extract the source code and patches from
> > > the Apache RPM supplied on the Redhat cd's into a directory like
> > > /usr/src/apache-1.3.9? I was able to install stock apache source
> > > code, no problem, but I am coming up short trying to find the Redhat
>
> > My question is, how would I extract the source code and patches from
> > the Apache RPM supplied on the Redhat cd's into a directory like
> > /usr/src/apache-1.3.9? I was able to install stock apache source
> > code, no problem, but I am coming up short trying to find the Redhat
> > patc
> My question is, how would I extract the source code and patches from
> the Apache RPM supplied on the Redhat cd's into a directory like
> /usr/src/apache-1.3.9? I was able to install stock apache source
> code, no problem, but I am coming up short trying to find the Redhat
> patches.
>
> Sorry
