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Re: help with SRPMS, e.g., libc-5.3.12.src.rpm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Salmon)
Sun Oct 20 14:23:31 1996
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From: John Salmon <johns@sockeye.fishnet.caltech.edu>
Date: 20 Oct 1996 11:21:05 -0700
In-Reply-To: Erik Troan's message of Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:27:16 -0400 (EDT)
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Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com> writes:
>
> 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
>
First, to answer your question:
penguin.301% rpm -K libc-5.3.12-8.src.rpm
libc-5.3.12-8.src.rpm: size pgp md5 OK
Second, some additional clues. A colleague suggested that I have to
run as root because rpm -i wants to install stuff in a root-owned
directory. Sure enough. I was able to do rpm -i, but none of the -b
options work yet. For example, starting with empty
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and SPECS directories:
[root@penguin SRPMS]# rpm -bp libc-5.3.12-8.src.rpm
Unknown Field: \355\253\356\333
Build failed.
[root@penguin SRPMS]# rpm -i libc-5.3.12-8.src.rpm
[root@penguin SRPMS]# rpm -bp libc-5.3.12-8.src.rpm
Unknown Field: \355\253\356\333
Build failed.
[root@penguin SRPMS]#
Any help appreciated,
John Salmon
P.S. The escaped octal values above were actually in binary on stdout.
I escaped them manually for email.
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