On SuSE 9.0 they use rpm version 4.1.1 In this version: rpm -ba file.spec no longer works (option -b unknown) At http://www.rpm.org I can't find documents/howtos for the new version Can anybody help ?
On SuSE 9.0 they use rpm version 4.1.1 In this version: rpm -ba file.spec no longer works (option -b unknown) At http://www.rpm.org I can't find documents/howtos for the new version Can anybody help ?
... Seems to work. Just made a "ls /usr/bin/rp*" :-)
This has come up about once a week on rpm-list for several years now. (So obviously I'm not suggesting you post this question there!) If you're serious about building things with RPM, you should be on that list; or at least when you have questions like this one, you should know where to find the archives.
This very question is also answered on the site you mention.
ObMetaComment: ...where to start. Sigh...
that I'm not so smart as you.
PS: You have seen, that I figured it out by myself. Why your comment ?
In that case I wouldn't have asked my question.
Have you tried to install rpm-build and using rpmbuild [options] ?
Posting an article to Advogato before looking around in /usr/bin/rp* (or "rpm -ql rpm" or something equally obvious) is not a very good reflex to have. I can think of about 20 things you should do before posting an article here, which includes "ask google" and "think about it for a week", which you obviously didn't.
While the fact that it's not in the RPM-HOWTO kind of sucks, if it's been asked enough times on some mailing lists, it's got to be findable using google.
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