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help with SRPMS, e.g., libc-5.3.12.src.rpm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Salmon)
Sun Oct 20 01:28:47 1996
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From: John Salmon <johns@fishnet.caltech.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 1996 22:25:52 -0700
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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.
Thanks,
John
---------excerpt from shell-----------
penguin.235% rpm --check libc-5.3.12-8.src.rpm
libc-5.3.12-8.src.rpm: size pgp md5 OK
penguin.236% rpm -qlp libc-5.3.12-8.src.rpm
libc-5.3.12-2.0kern.patch
libc-5.3.12-config.patch
libc-5.3.12-lckpwdf.patch
libc-5.3.12-readdir.patch
libc-5.3.12-sparc-config-malloc.patch
libc-5.3.12-sparc-siglist.patch
libc-5.3.12.tar.gz
redhat.diff
libc-5.3.12.spec
penguin.237% rpm -i libc-5.3.12-8.src.rpm
source package contains no .spec file
error: libc-5.3.12-8.src.rpm does not appear to be a RPM package
error: libc-5.3.12-8.src.rpm cannot be installed
penguin.238% rpm --version
RPM version 2.2.5
penguin.239%
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