Kernel Rebuild Question

[Mostafa Z. Afgani]

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Satish Balay wrote:
| On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:
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|>Satish Balay wrote:
|>| On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:
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|>|>Just curious, if he is using the --rebuild option, where's he going to
|>|>get the *.spec file?
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|>| If you modify the specfile - use:
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|>| rpmbuild -ba foo.spec
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|>| Satish
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|>Yes, I know that. But when you use 'rpmbuild --rebuild *.src.rpm' you
|>don't really have access to the *.spec file since it's contained in the
|>*src.rpm. If you want to edit the *.spec file, wouldn't you have to:
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|>1. install the *.src.rpm
|>2. edit the *.spec
|>3. use rpmbuild -ba *
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|>Is there a simpler way? without having to install the sources and still
|>letting rpmbuild automate the whole process through the --rebuild option?
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| rpmbuild --rebuild foo.src.rpm
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| is equivalent to:
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| rpm -ih foo.src.rpm
| rpmbuild -bb foo.spec
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| Not sure what you want to simplify.
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| Satish
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I do realize that they are equivalent .. but imagine the scenerio where
I am not interested in actually extracting the sources and editing the
*.spec file .. the scenerio where I would just issue 'rpmbuild --rebuild
*.src.rpm' and and voila a binary package appears.

Anyway .. I was just trying to point out that the OP wanted to issue
something like

$ rpmbuild --rebuild --target i386 kernel.src.rpm

and be done with it. Then someone else pointed out editing the *.spec
file. My point was - there is no way to use the --rebuild option if you
have to go around editing *.spec files.

What I (and the OP I suppose) was hoping for was a way to override such
flags (buildsmp) along with the rpmbuild --rebuild options (without
editing the *.spec file). I glanced through the man page of rpmbuild but
there doesn't seem to be any way of doing this. So, I guess I should
drop the topic.

Best,
- -M
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