[lug] rpm's and tarball

[David Trowbridge]

You can get a tarball by installing the source rpm. It will put the
tarball (and probably some patches, which you can ignore) in
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

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David Trowbridge
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, D. Stimits wrote:

> This is kind of silly, but I am unable to find a way to create a tarball
> out of a source rpm. I think the "--tarbuild" is probably to create an
> rpm from a tarball, but even this appears to not exist in my rpm, it
> causes this:
> --tarbuild: unknown option
>
> When I do a --rebuild, I might expect the /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ to
> contain the tarball and /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ to contain the
> rebuild rpm, but only the rpm appears for the package I am looking at.
> I'm also wondering if during a rebuild there is a way to specify i686
> instead of i386?
>
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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