building SRPMS (was: APC UPS)

Carsten Milling yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Sep 18 18:46:01 2002


On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 03:17:32PM -0400, Michael George wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, September 17, 2002, at 12:10  PM, nathan r. hruby wrote:
> 
> >rpm --rebuild ./<package>-blah...
> >
> >or
> >
> >rpm -i <package>-blah ; cd /usr/src/rpm/SPECS ; rpm -bb ./<specfile>
> 
> I've tried both ways, but I get "<package or specfile>: No such file or 
> directory".  Is there a system config somewhere that's likely broken?

You probably need to install the rpm-build package:

apt-get install rpm-build