[ale] (FA)Q: installed kernel SRPM - now what?

[Mike Panetta]

Like James said you need to make sure that you have the rpm-build rpm
installed as well.  It installs several files in /usr/lib/rpm that are
required for build, in addition to the dirs in /usr/src/redhat.  I did
not think of this because I was so used to building the directories by
hand because I have built alot of RPM's outside /usr/src dir in the past
(custom build scripts and whatnot).

Mike

On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 07:20, John Mills wrote:
> Mike -
> 
> Thanks for the note.
> 
> That may be the problem.
> 
> On 16 Aug 2002, Mike Panetta wrote:
> 
> > Did you really create the /usr/src/redhat directory?  If you did, did
> > you also create the SOURCES, SPECS, BUILD, RPMS/{i386, i486, i586, i686,
> > athlon, noarch}, and SRPMS dirs too?  If you did not the RPM will not
> > build (RPM stupidly IMO does not create the dirs for you if they do not
> > exist).
> 
> Installing the 'rpm' required that I create '/usr/src/redhat' and the
> install itself created the ./SOURCES and ./SPECS directories. I innocently
> assumed I had found a rule here.  I'll create a few of those and see if it
> helps. Do I need a full family of RPMS/{i386, ..., noarch}? (I am guessing
> "yes.")
> 
>  - John Mills
> 



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