How do you "configure" a source RPM (.src.rpm)

[Jonathan Singer]

If I understand correctly, you're using 'rpm --rebuild foo.src.rpm', right?

Try installing the src.rpm instead, with 'rpm -ivh foo.src.rpm'. That installs the source and spec files, which you can then tweak to your liking. Go into /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and modify foo.spec.

I haven't made a spec file in a long time and forget which section you have to modify for configure (can someone else help out?) but the RPM HOWTO may help.

<http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/build.html>

>From: Bernard mentink <ebike@paradise.net.nz>
>  Hi All,
>
>A quick question. How do you get RPM to allow you to pause the
>installation, in order to run ./configure. I can not see
>an option in "man rpm". I am doing the normal "rpm --rebuild" to obtain
>the ppc.rpm, but can not find a way to do any
>customization.
>
>The only option, I can see, is after the build, to get into the src
>directory and re-configure, make etc etc, but the subseqent install
>proberly does not put the executable in the same place as the normal rpm -i.
>
>Hope that makes sense. :-\
>
>Thanks,
>Bernie.
>