[SOLVED] rpmbuild building src rpm

[flebber]

I was building the src rpm of the jupiter applet, well trying I have never done it before.

Following this guide http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archiv...php/t-379.html

However when I attempt to run rpmbuild I am told it does not exist, the article was from 2004 has the command been replaced?

This was my output.

[sayth@renshawfamily Downloads]$ cd /usr/src/redhat
[sayth@renshawfamily redhat]$ rpmbuild --rebuild --target x86_64 --define "kernel 3.6.9-4.fc18" ~/Downloads/jupiter-0.1.9-1.src.rpm
bash: rpmbuild: command not found...
[sayth@renshawfamily redhat]$

[smr54]

It sounds as if you haven't installed all the necessary packages.

This is CentOS but see if you have the rpm-build (note the dash) installed.

When a command, or even a shared object (for example, if you get a message thislib.so.3 not found) is missing, one way to find it is

yum provides */<missing_file>, for example, in this instance, yum provides */rpm-build. (One way to make the search go a bit more quickly is to just use the main Fedora repo for the search, especially if it's a common file, otherwise, it will search all repos that you usually use. So, for example

yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=fedora provides */rpmbuild


In this case, the rpm-build package provides rpmbuild.

Just doublechecked on F18, and it's still the rpm-build package.

So yum install rpm-build should fix that for you.

Try

su
yum install @Development\ Tools  rpmdevtools
exit
cd ~
rpmdev-setuptree
rpmbuild --rebuild --target x86_64 --define "kernel 3.6.9-4.fc18" ~/Downloads/jupiter-0.1.9-1.src.rpm

[flebber]

Thanks that worked.

Did you need to change this as it looks wrong?

--define "kernel 3.6.9-4.fc18"

it normally requires the arch as well

--define "kernel 3.6.9-4.fc18.x86_64"

[flebber]

Thanks Yellowman

This is how I did full command.

[sayth@renshawfamily ~]$ rpmbuild --rebuild --target x86_64 --define "kernel 3.6.9-4.fc18" ~/Downloads/jupiter-0.1.9-1.src.rpm