[lug] rpm's and tarball

[D. Stimits]

David Trowbridge wrote:
> 
> 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

Thanks, that was the trick.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

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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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