Mandrake Linux 8.0 uses RPM 4.0 http://www.rpm.org/ as its package manager but does some things a little differently. The man pages for rpm indicate that you can use rpm with the =-b= flag to build packages from source but this isn't the case - you have to install the =rpm-build= package and use =rpmbuild= instead. The command line args appear to be the same for =rpmbuild= as for rpm. When you install a source rpm the files go into the =/usr/src/RPM/= directory, in various subdirectories. =rpmbuild -bc= {specfile} rebuilds the package. The specfile is probably in =/usr/src/RPM/SPECS/=. --- Trying to build the kernel bombed with the following error: <pre> + echo MAKE DEPEND FOR smp i686 KERNEL... MAKE DEPEND FOR smp i686 KERNEL... + make -s mrproper + install -m644 /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/kernel-2.4.3-i686.config arch/i386/defconfig install: /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/kernel-2.4.3-i686.config: No such file or directory Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.68750 (%build) [root@tiny RPM]# </pre> I had to copy =usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/kernel-2.4.3-i586.config= to =usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/kernel-2.4.3-i686.config= (and edit the configuration, of course). -- Main.TobyCabot - 13 Jun 2001 <br>
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