[bstone]

I am running Yellow Dog Linux on my Powerbook Pismo 400. It runs super well. I am trying to rebuild a src.rpm but every command I try with it fails. Examples:

[root@localhost bstone]# rpm --rebuild mol-kmods-0.9.70-3.src.rpm
--rebuild: unknown option

[root@localhost bstone]# rpmbuild -rebuild mol-kmods-0.9.70-3.src.rpm
-bash: rpmbuild: command not found

[root@localhost bstone]# rpmbuild --rebuild mol-kmods-0.9.70-3.src.rpm
-bash: rpmbuild: command not found


I've done several google searches and my oh my it's a wee bit frustrating.

Help!

[utidjian]

Originally posted by bstone:
I am running Yellow Dog Linux on my Powerbook Pismo 400. It runs super well. I am trying to rebuild a src.rpm but every command I try with it fails. Examples:

[root@localhost bstone]# rpm --rebuild mol-kmods-0.9.70-3.src.rpm
--rebuild: unknown option

Yep that option has been "deprecated"... it used to warn you about that but now it just fails as an "unknown option".

[root@localhost bstone]# rpmbuild -rebuild mol-kmods-0.9.70-3.src.rpm
-bash: rpmbuild: command not found

[root@localhost bstone]# rpmbuild --rebuild mol-kmods-0.9.70-3.src.rpm
-bash: rpmbuild: command not found

I've done several google searches and my oh my it's a wee bit frustrating.

Help!

Well the last attempt tells you right there: "rpmbuild: command not found". IOW the package that supplies the rpmbuild command has not been installed. This is a little strange but may be because you did not select to install a development environment. If you are using YDL-Sirius you can install the correct package by simply doing:

rpm -ivh ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yel...4.1-9d.ppc.rpm

or look on your distro CDs. Then your rpmbuilds should work fine (or fail for a new and different reason ;-)).