maybe i'm just having a stupid moment but i installed a source rpm (rpm -Uvh srcfile.rpm) and now i can't find where the heck it went!! i tried reinstalling thinking maybe something went wrong but it says its already installed.. anyone?

it'll be in /usr/src/Redhat/SRPMS or somethign very similar. note that this IS the source code, not a program, and you'll trypically not install it, but build another binary RPM from it, using erm... rpm --rebuild or something... i forget.

see thats what i thought too but look


[root@localhost /]# ls -a /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/
. ..
[root@localhost /]#

theres nothing there :|

There is a SPECS directory where the spec file of the source package goes. The source and patches go in the SOURCES directory.

You use the rpmbuild command to build a new src.rpm or a regular rpm, or to install, depending on which option you use.

If you build a compiled rpm package, it will go into the RPM directory. Suppose that you made some changes to the source. You can repackage a source rpm. The source rpm that you produce goes into the SRPMS directory.

cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/
rpmbuild -bi packagename.spec

This will apply the patches, build the application and install it.

I've used rpmbuild -bp to apply patches, and then, after extracting the source tarball, produced postscript documentation from the .texi source.

nope...
same thing as before


[root@localhost ~]# ls -a /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/
. ..
[root@localhost ~]#


see nothing there still
i dunno wtf is going on.. :|

Whats the package you installed and its filename.

uhm its bittorrent
i know it doesn't say .src.rpm or whatever but thats what they call it
also when it installed in the instructions it says to open some files with python but i don't have those files

If it doesn't say .src.rpm at the end then it is not a source rpm it is a binary rpm. If it were a source rpm it would be where jshiwal mentioned. Try this command substituting the bittorent package you installed.It will list the full pathname for each file that was installed by that package. If it is the bittorent I'm thinking of there will be a lot of python programs put in /usr/bin starting with bt*. Since python is an interpreted language these are source code, but the rpm is not considered a src.rpm.

Bill

oh ok thanks man!
it was confusing that they called it a source file but it wasn't src.rpm..
thanks again!