I downloaded Samba because for some reason when installing from directly from the redhat disk it freezes. Anyway, I typed in the terminal

rpmbuild --rebuild samba-3.0.0-2.src.rpm
It said no such file or directory exists... I assume im supposed to type the full directory in somewhere in the line, which is /home/endezeichen/samba-3.0.0-2.src.rpm Where in the line should I type this?? Is there an easier way?
Thanks

I think that before a rebuild you need to
install the source rpm? Not that I know a
lot about rpms, since I don't use them...


Cheers,
Tink

It could be a problem with the build directories. Thread title should probably be building an rpm. Anyway, one suggestion would be to configure rpmbuild for your user account to build source rpms under your home directory. If you don't have the file ~endezeichen/.rpmmacros then make one and put the following in it:

# .rpmmacros
%_topdir /home/endezeichen/rpm
%_tmppath /home/endezeichen/tmp

Make sure the the directories the following directories exist with the following under you user account:

$ mkdir -p ~endezeichen/tmp
$ mkdir -p ~endezeichen/rpm
$ for d in BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS; do mkdir -p ~endezeichen/rpm/$d; done
$ for d in athlon i386 i486 i586 i686 noarch; do mkdir -p ~endezeichen/rpm/RPMS/$d; done

Then try to build it with rpmbuild:

rpmbuild --rebuild ~/endezeichen/samba-3.0.0-2.src.rpm

Try all of this to see if it works.

Also, make sure the rpm-build package is installed It's separate from the rpm package on Mandrake; probably is in Redhat too.

This may be irrelevant or just an answer from another noob - but given the fact that smaba is not installing of the disk:

you just installed a new version of RH on a PC right?

type rpm -ql samba - to see wat is installed(package wize)

if the rpm doesn't have any previous packages - just install it rather then rebuilding it? maybe just a suggestion