.spec frustration

Francis X. Maier yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri Apr 30 05:12:01 2004


I've downloaded a src.rpm and now have xxxx.spec file in my 
/usr/src/rpm/SPECS directory.  But everytime I issue this command
rpm -bp xxx.spec

I get back the message "unknown command".  What command should I be 
using.  Whar steps do I need to take to finish the build?  The YDL 
lists are confusing, and the Red Hat Linux 9 Bible is where I'm getting 
the invalid command.

Thanks for any help.