Re: Question re: building RPMs

[Jeff Johnson <jbj redhat com>]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 06:06:55PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> Up until the latest version of RPM, you used to be able to specify the arch 
> you wanted to rebuild an SRPM for. Now, when you try to specify a 
> "--target=<arch>" RPM will bomb with a "--target=i686: unknown option" error. 
> What happened to this option? Did it get changed? 
> Sorry if this is a FAQ, I'm not seeing it in the helpfile... as a matter of 
> fact, the man page still shows that as a valid command-line option when 
> building rpms....

Use rpmbuild, not rpm. The man page tells you how to configure the
traditional behavior if desired.

73 de Jeff

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