Re: RPM doesn't do as it is told.

["Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose ex-pressnet com>]

> > Besides the "--rebuild --target i686" option is worth it's weight in
gold...
>
> I assume this only works on source RPM's. It's just unrolling the RPM,
> running configure, make, and make install, and specifying optimizations,
> right? --That's just an educated guess from the man pages, but it doesn't
> go into much depth.
>

And, applying patches, setting target directories, etc...

The nice thing about it is that source RPM's are for the most part now
easily compilable without having to guess which switches were being used
etc...

Couple it with the -exec option of find, and you have an easy way of
rebuilding the whole RH distribution...

-JMS