[1049] in RedHat Linux List
RPM questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wierdl Mate)
Sat Oct 26 00:11:27 1996
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 23:09:21 -0500
From: Wierdl Mate <matyi@wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu>
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1)
I am trying to build qmail from the src.rpm package. I do
rpm -bp
then
rpm -bc
and notice that the `prep' stage is done again. Then I do
rpm -bi
and all the previous steps are redone. This contradicts the man page
of rpm. For example:
-bc Do the "%build" stage from the spec file (after
doing the prep stage). This generally involves the
equivalent of a "make".
Or I just got confused, and in fact the man page is saying:
"Do the prep and then the build stage"
Also, it seems to me that `rpm -ba' does more than advertised in the
man page:
-ba Build binary and source packages (after doing the
prep, build, and install stages).
Indeed, it for me at least it executes the `clean' section.
2)
I did not see this documented in the rpm-howto, but studying spec
files it seems that if I just put a directory name in the `Files'
section then the content of the whole directory is to be installed.
Is this true?
All this in Colgate.
Thanks a lot.
(I was not sure if I should post this here, but somehow I think of the
rpm list as one for experts).
Mate
M\'at\'e Wierdl
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Memphis,
E-mail: matyi@moni.msci.memphis.edu
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