[plug] rpm commands

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Richard wrote:

> I have just installed RedHat 8 on my system, but due to the Kyro2 chipset on 
> my graphics card I have to install specific drivers to get x working. Since 
> the rpm's are not upto rh8 yet, I'm using the source rpm's. In Mandrake the 
> command I use is rpm --rebuild <driver.src.rpm>, but in redhat I get an error 
> message that the command --rebuild does not exist. I have looked through the 
> list, using --help, but I can't see anything relating to src building. Could 
> someone tell me what command would work to build the rpm file on redhat 
> instead of --rebuild?

install the rpm-build rpm. 

Yours Tony

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