Re: downloading software

Hi Kashif,

Thank you.

  I made the download again and now the installation is correct.  My 
first download was corrupted!!!

Faria.


Kashif Shaikh wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 20:30, Frederico Faria wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
> 
> Hello,
> 
>>I made the download of  "failsafe-1.0.4.SuSE1-0.src.rpm"  from SUSE site.
>>
>>  I used the command : "rpm --rebuild failsafe-1.0.4.SuSE1-0.src.rpm"
>>
>>   Then a message "Installing failsafe-1.0.4.SuSE1-0.src.rpm"  arose but 
>>after nothing more happened!
>>
>>     Is this the correct way to build the fail safe sources. Sorry, but 
>>I am beginner to build source packages using  RPM.
> 
> 
> I dunno why rebuild didn't work for you(are you using newer rpm version?
> I've heard older versions don't work to well with new ones). I wouldn't
> do a direct rebuild on Suse's rpms(unless you have a suse-distro) as it
> will apply suse installation specific patches.
> 
> Anyways to make redhat rpms, after unrolling the tarball from the srpm,
> do a 'make rpm'.  Read the archives if you need more info about this...
> 
> If you're new to rpm and want to learn more read Maximum RPM at
> http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm.  It's a very light read. 
> 
> Kashif
> 
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