RE: rpm -ba to build does not work ???

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 12:46, lrtaylor@micron.com wrote:
> Come on, Seth.  Be nice.  When even the official RPM site points you
> to out of date material as practically the standard reference on RPM
> and it (Maximum RPM) tells you to do things differently than they've
> been done for the last few years, you can't be too harsh on someone
> who doesn't know why the commands in the book (or whatever reference
> they looked at) don't work. 
> 

I didn't think I was terribly harsh. rpm -ba has been legacied in for
the last 3 years and jbj has been repeatedly saying 'use rpmbuild' for a
while now. It's been the archives N times where N is a fairly good sized
integer.

I was being sarcastic about the rtfm but if you search for build in the
rpm manpage you'll find the explanation.

-sv