Hi everyone!

I was trying to compile a file.scr.rpm file with rpm --rebuild (I do not no if it is correct), but i was receiving a message that the file does no exist.

So I've searched over the internet an then I found the rpmbuild, but my nix says that this command does not exist? Why? Is is a problem from conectiva? What should I do?

Any help would be very appreciated,

Thanks in advance
ltt19

What distribution is this running? usually you can get this by running 'cat /etc/issue'

I'm running Fedora Core 3 and am having the same problem.
I need to compile a driver, and so need the kernel source (which is no longer provided in FC3), so I have downloaded and installed (with RPM) the kernel-source.src.rpm. This is fine, but now I need to use RPMBUILD to actually generate the source code from the SPEC file.
RPMBUILD is not on my system! I cannot find reference to any other package I need to install to get it. Is it separate from RPM? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks Pward

I had to download rpmbuild myself for Mandrake 10.0 Community.

Just go to www.rpmfind.net or www.pbone.net (or if you have something like urpmi) and search "rpm-build". Just like it is in the brackets. Then, get the rpm that is approprite for your system, install it, and you should be good to go.

Good luck!

Thanks, with your help, I have managed to find it on the Red Hat server at:

download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/rpm-build-4.3.2-21.i386.rpm

Cheers,

Pward

Doesn't it violate GPL to distribute the Linux kernel without making the source code available as well?

Also, when you run rpmbuild with a SPEC file, you will also need to have the source file in the SOURCES directory. It is different than when you already have the SRPM (src.rpm) file, which contains both the SPEC file and source code.

The source code is provided, but it must be downloaded separately now, just the same as all of the other source RPM's.

By the way, just to complete the story, I did find that RPM-BUILD is provided with the initial core as an RPM (in object form, I still couldn't find a source RPM file on the Fedora site).

All I had to do under Fedora Core 3 is go to the GUI Add/Remove Applications and install Development Tools. This installs by default RPM-BUILD along with another 50 or so development applications. Easy ! (when you know).

As far as installing the source, after downloading kernel-2.6.9-1.667.src.rpm (38.4 Mb) I installed it with
rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-1.667.src.rpm
which puts some directories in /usr/src/redhat and then ran
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec
This builds the entire source tree

Thanks for everyone's help

Pward

Glad you got it all figured out.

Just curious, could you have simply run "rpmbuild --rebuild kernel-2.6.9-1.667.src.rpm" instead of installing the SRPM first and then running the rpmbuild process on the SPEC file? The latter would not be necessary unless you needed to change the specs in the SPEC file.