[plug] re: rpm -bb command

[Luke Dudney]

Redhat 8+ uses the 'rpmbuild' command for building RPMs. It supports all
the build commands from older versions. So you'd run rpmbuild -bb
package.spec. This took me quite a while to figure out after upgrading
to 8.

Cheers
Luke


On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 09:30, Jon Miller wrote:
> In rhl8.0 I issued rpm -bb package.spec and I get a :
> [root at gfpmsql SPECS]# rpm -bb bcm5700.spec
> -bb: unknown option
> 
> Checking rpm --help I found nothing to mention -bb or building binaries.   Anyone seen this or know what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS
> Director/Sr Systems Consultant
> MMT Networks Pty Ltd
> http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au
> 
> "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure
>  is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby
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