Re: Installing source rpm, RH8.0

[Michael Schwendt <ms0301rh arcor de>]

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On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 11:15:33 -0000, Greg Stewart wrote:

> I've installed RH psyche in order to learn how to program on linux, and I've
> been trying to install source code, particularly that for vim.
> 
> Running:
> 
> rpm -i -v vim-6.1-14.src.rpm (as root from the package dir) prints out
> 
> vim-6.1-14
> 
> but     rpm -q -v vim-6.1-14     indicates the package isn't installed.

Correct. Source rpms get extracted, not installed.

> All
> that happens is that about 100 patch and tar.gz files etc are created in
> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/.

Correct. That's expected behaviour, though you shouldn't extract
source rpms as root.

You write you want the source code for vim. It's in the tar.gz archive.

> It's as if some script was supposed to be run to amalgamate them and
> doesn't. Trying to install using redhat-config-packages doesn't do much
> better, except that an rpm -q will indicate the package installed - the
> files in /SOURCES/ remain the same unusable bunch...

Installing a src.rpm will never make "rpm -q" report that the file
is installed.

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