Re: Build fails in 4.0.2

["Ryan W. Maple" <ryan guardiandigital com>]

Do you have the rpm-build package installed? :)

-r

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   Ryan W. Maple          "I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes..."  -LW
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On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Andy Hutchinson wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> When I try and build from a spec file using
> 
> 	rpm -bp specfile
> 
> rpm just prints out the usage statement. If I change to a filename that I 
> know does not exist the same thing happens. It's as if the command is 
> ignored. This used to work in 3.0.3. Other commands like --help, --version 
> -qa work.
> 
> Some history.
> 
> Needed to install a package which required rpm v4. I downloaded rpm 4.0.2 
> from rpm.org and it needed db3 and popt which I also downloaded. 
> Installation went on OK. I _didn't_ read the RH errata on this until 
> discovering the problem. However, when I rebuild the db there are no errors 
> and rpm -qa | fgrep rpm reports 4.0.2 as I would expect. System is a 
> standard RH6.2 install apart from these changes.
> 
> Since the update appeared to work I've since deleted the old database files :(
> 
> Anybody got any clues?