.spec frustration

[Ken Schweigert]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 05:12:19AM -0600, Francis X. Maier wrote:
> 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.

Do you have the rpm-build package installed?  I think that is what you
need.

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