[horde] RPM feedback ... Problem on Red Hat 7.2

[Brent J. Nordquist]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Hermit <klowther at cisnet.com> wrote:

> > I downloaded the two RPMs "horde-2.0-1.src.rpm" and "imp-3.0-1.src.rpm"
> > and then attempted to install them.
> > 
> > In both cases, "rpm -qpl" shows that each "xx.rpm" file contains exactly
> > three components; 1 "xx.tar.gz" file, 1 "xx.conf" file and 1 "xx.spec"
> > file.
> 
> Welcome to RMP hell. ;-)  This stuff is much too common with RPM.

Hermit, you know not of what you speak.  The typo just adds to the irony.

Richard, that's normal for SRPMs; you then "cd /usr/src/redhat" and do
"rpm -bb SPECS/xx.spec" as root to build the binary ones.  (See the RPM
man page for details.)  Your alternative is to just download the regular
RPMs and install those.

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