.spec frustration

[Jerry S.]

Hello Francis,

  try doing a "rpmbuild -bp xxx.spec".  the -bp feature was one of the
  features moved to rpmbuild from rpm.  try doing "man rpmbuild" and
  "man rpm"  The end of the rpm man explains mods you can do to still
  call rpmbuild from rpm, but I have found it easier to just get in
  the habit of using rpmbuild itself.

  Hope that helps
  jer

Friday, April 30, 2004, 4:12:19 AM, you wrote:

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

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

FXM> Thanks for any help.

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Best regards,
 Jerry

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