Slightly OT - rpm -bb problems

[Paul Howarth]

Mark Haney wrote:
> I'm trying to build a nagios RPM from source, not on Fedora, but on RHEL 
> AS 2.1, but when I run 'rpm -bb nagios.spec' from the 
> /usr/src/redhat/SPECS directory it fails with a reply:
> 
> nagios.spec: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> I don't think this is anything more than something I'm missing as far as 
> building the RPM goes.  Anybody have any ideas?  Is it because it's RHEL 
> and not Fedora?  Or is it something simple?

It means you haven't put your spec file nagios.spec in the 
/usr/src/redhat/SPECS directory.

Are you writing the spec yourself or using someone else's?

Is RHEL 2.1 so old that it still uses "rpm" rather than "rpmbuild" for 
package-building btw?

Paul.