Rebuild RPM with .rpm and .spec

Richard J richardj112 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 29 04:44:30 UTC 2008


Hi,
Thanks a lot.. I was able to solve the problem. I used rpmrebuild and added
the dependencies and after that the RPMs were installed in the desired
sequence.

Thanks Again!
Richard :-)

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:17 PM, devzero2000 <devzero2000 at rpm5.org> wrote:

> From 4.4  Prereq is equal to Requires, and it is better don't use it: so
>> use only Requires for
>> assuring deps ordering. FWIW, rpm5 had dropped the Prereq: support.
>>
>> hth
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Valery Reznic <valery_reznic at yahoo.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On Wed, 10/22/08, Richard J <richardj112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > From: Richard J <richardj112 at gmail.com>
>>> > Subject: Rebuild RPM with .rpm and .spec
>>> > To: rpm-list at lists.rpm.org
>>> > Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 12:22 PM
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I need to change something and add in .spec file of an rpm
>>> > package and
>>> > rebuild it.
>>> > Precisely, I need to add 'Prereq' in the .spec file
>>> > so that a kernel
>>> > package gets installed before my rpm.
>>> > I have the rpm and .spec file. Is it possible to rebuild my
>>> > rpm
>>> > without the .src.rpm or the source code.
>>> Yes, it's possible with rpmrebuild (http://rpmrebuild.sf.net) and even
>>> no need in the .spec file.
>>>
>>> Valery
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Thanks a lot for help.
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Richard
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