RPM Rebuild....What Am I doing Wrong?
 

I'm trying to rebuild Galeon.

rpm --rebuild galeon-1.10-1.src.rpm
no such file or directory

The file is there, I downloaded it, I checked it, I know the path to it. What's up?

Germ

hi Germ,
You need to be in the same directory or specify the path to the rpm, e.g. rpm --rebuild /home/germ/galeon-1.10-1.src.rpm if it is in you home directory and you are not, you also need to be root because it puts the built rpm in /usr/src/<distroname>/RPMS/i386/ if you don't specify architecture, if you knew that already then sorry for giving too much info.

here are some other hopefully helpful rpm commands
http://www.linuxjunior.org/cgi-bin/p...=Display&id=35

OK.....How did you know it was /home/germ/?? j/k :D

What I did was su and then cd to my home directory. Do I need to login as root to rebuild?

no... if you su, you're considered root until you type exit and go back to being just watever you logged in as.

use su - it picks up root entvironment, but that should not matter.

this is pretty weird, anychance it it in another directory or a mis-spelling? i know dumb question...but i gotta ask

no...checked all that. Really weird.

try putting in the explicit path even if you are in the same directory...

Just gotta ask have you tried changing to that directory and then
rpm --rebuild ga{TAB} to see if it will fill in the rest.

This is really weird. I used the explicit path and still get the same error. I'm going to re-download the source and try again. Will post back.

Thanks,
Germ

re-downloaded the source RPM.
tried to rebuild, su and also logged in as root
removed rpm-rebuilder and reinstalled
tried again and again.

same error each time- no such directory or file

Mandrake 8.1

I'm stumped.