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Re: help with SRPMS, e.g., libc-5.3.12.src.rpm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Sun Oct 20 13:28:32 1996
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:27:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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In-Reply-To: <m1budy436n.fsf@fishnet.caltech.edu>
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On 19 Oct 1996, John Salmon wrote:
> Maybe I just don't understand how SRPMS are supposed to work. I
> wanted to take a look inside the libc source, so I ftp'ed
> libc-5.3.12.src.rpm from a redhat mirror. Everything looks fine,
> including all the signatures, etc. But when I try to install it, rpm
> complains that there is no .spec file. What am I missing?? I'm using
> rpm 2.2.5, and redhat-4.0.
Does "rpm -K libc-5.3.12.src.rpm" work?
Erik
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