CentOS - May 2004 - MC

I've tried to install midnight commander on centos3.1 final. No luck in
installing it via yum install. When I download src.rpm from centos2 updates
SRPMS I couldn't rebuild it. RPM --rebuild mc*.src.rpm didn't work (no
rebuild option). What can I do then ?

Best Regards
Cooba

Add this to /etc/popt:

rpm     exec --bp               rpmb -bp
rpm     exec --bc               rpmb -bc
rpm     exec --bi               rpmb -bi
rpm     exec --bl               rpmb -bl
rpm     exec --ba               rpmb -ba
rpm     exec --bb               rpmb -bb
rpm     exec --bs               rpmb -bs
rpm     exec --tp               rpmb -tp
rpm     exec --tc               rpmb -tc
rpm     exec --ti               rpmb -ti
rpm     exec --tl               rpmb -tl
rpm     exec --ta               rpmb -ta
rpm     exec --tb               rpmb -tb
rpm     exec --ts               rpmb -ts
rpm     exec --rebuild          rpmb --rebuild
rpm     exec --recompile        rpmb --recompile
rpm     exec --clean            rpmb --clean
rpm     exec --rmsource         rpmb --rmsource
rpm     exec --rmspec           rpmb --rmspec
rpm     exec --target           rpmb --target
rpm     exec --short-circuit    rpmb --short-circuit

And create a symbolic lynk for rpmbuild to rpmb.

Jakub Wojtanowski wrote:
>I've tried to install midnight commander on centos3.1 final. No luck in
>installing it via yum install. When I download src.rpm from centos2 updates
>SRPMS I couldn't rebuild it. RPM --rebuild mc*.src.rpm didn't work
(no
>rebuild option). What can I do then ?
>
>Best Regards
>Cooba
>
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I used mc-4.6.0-9.i386.rpm  and it worked fine, but I wanted to know why
rpm --rebuild didn't work. As for Tom's advice I don't have
/etc/popt .
Guess I need to create one


Best Regards
Cooba
> I used the following link
>
ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/redhat/updates/9/en/os/i386/mc-4.6.0-7.9.i386.rp
> m which is running fine on my system.

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Jakub Wojtanowski wrote:
> SRPMS I couldn't rebuild it. RPM --rebuild mc*.src.rpm didn't work
(no
The former     rpm --rebuild mc*src.rpm option has been out of 
RPM for about three years now

Install the package rpm-build, and the process:
    rpmbuild --rebuild mc*src.rpm
should work if you otherwise have a consistent building 
environment.

The current best practice in rpm building is to do so as 
non-root, in a clean build chroot.  Google will offer some 
links -- more are at:
    http://www.herrold.com/caos/
and were written or compiled incident to the cAos project, of 
which CentOS is a member

-- Russ Herrold