Being Newer Than Red Hat

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 03:45:15PM -0400, Matthew J. Brodeur wrote:
>    I have often thought the same thing.  Between time constraints and 
> laziness I have never actually learned the whole process.  The closest I 
> come is building an RPM using someone else's spec file, often fixing 
> minor things along the way.

Sounds like a good, practical introduction.

>    In your case you could grab a .src.rpm from the rawhide (or limbo) 
> tree:
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/linux/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/cvs-1.11.2-5.src.rpm
>    and run:
> # rpmbuild --rebuild cvs-1.11.2-5.src.rpm

Excellent!  That should both keep me clean with Red Hat and start
teaching me more about all this stuff.


Thanks,

-kb, the Kent who is currently downloading the rawhide SRPM.