[imp] RH7 RPMS

[Blair Lowe]

Not a stupid question at all.

Normally the source goes into /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES, and the specs 
into /usr/src/redhat/SPECS.

We normally use  a ".rpmmacros" file in a non root account, and set 
up our own tree in the non root user account.

Here is an example of the contents of a .rpmmacros file:

%_topdir        /home/{username}/src
%_timecheck     3600
%_signature pgp
%_pgp_path /home/{username}/.pgp
%_pgp_name Blair Lowe <Blair.Lowe@compeng.net>
%_pgpbin /usr/bin/pgp

You should read the maximum rpm document. One of the errors that was 
in that document was relating to this .rpmmacros file and I am not 
sure if they had fixed it yet.

Basically after you get the source code rpms, just run an rpm -ba 
{filename} on the .srpms, and it will create the ".rpm" file. This 
rpm file will be stored in the /home/{username}/src/RPMS/i386 
directory if you use a similar .rpmmacros file, or in 
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 for a standard installation. That assumes 
that you are using i386 architecture, otherwise the last part of the 
path will be different.

At 11:59 -0500 2001/02/08, Chi wrote:
>I don't mean to ask a stupid question but has anyone used the Red 
>Hat 7 RPMS that Brent put on the FTP server? When you run the 
>horde-1.2.4-1rh7 and imp-2.2.4-1rh7 RPMS, what path do they install? 
>Thanks.
>
>Chi

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