modifying another distro's rpm for FC4

James Kosin jkosin at beta.intcomgrp.com
Fri Feb 10 16:34:13 UTC 2006


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Claude Jones wrote:
> On Friday 10 February 2006 8:53 am, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> In some cases you can take the SRPM from the other distro and build it
>> on Fedora. It won't always work, but I can't think of any other way of
>> doing it.
>>
>> Paul.
> As usual, thanks, Paul. You gave me the clue, It was rpm --rebuild 
> [source-rpm] which is what I'd remembered, but,  I couldn't find that command 
> in man rpm - maybe it's a utility...

Try 'rpmbuild --rebuild [source-rpm]'.... It was split off some time
ago, read man rpmbuild for more.

James Kosin
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