[Techtalk] Quirks of RH8 (was: Re: RH8--no gcc??)

[Telsa Gwynne]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:17:42AM +0200 or thereabouts, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 01:39, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 06:37:06PM +0100 or thereabouts, Conor Daly wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 12:34:11PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
> > > Telsa Gwynne thought:
> > To my surprise, I just found it isn't created until you rpm --install
> > a source rpm. Or at least, it's not there on a freshly-installed box.
> 
> Hmm, here /usr/src/redhat and the dirs beneath are part part of the
> rpm-build package...

Ah. Yes. I hadn't realised when I typed that that rpm-build isn't
on the box I tried looking at. (Neither is /usr/src/redhat/ )
 
> Hey, it's been split out for quite some time ;-). It's only that there's
> been a command alias for rpm (in /usr/lib/rpmpopt-*) that has been
> removed now. It should be easy to take the "offending" lines from an old
> rpmpopt file and have the 'rpm -b*' functionality back.

Hadn't realised that. 
 
> > Those instructions hold good for all the other rpm-using distros
> > around currently, as far as I know. RH 8.0 users, though, you 
> > want rpmbuild. (in a package called rpm-build, just to confuse).
> 
> "rpm-build" is the "build" subpackage of rpm. "rpmbuild" is one
> character less to type ;-). If we had an "rpm-build" command people
> would complain about their bleeding fingers and "rpmbuild" would be a
> much too ugly package name for us (ugly package names are SuSE's turf,
> we don't want to be caught there ;-) (sorry couldn't resist (shame on
> me))).

Whereas, looking at rpm -qa | grep rpm, the package rpm404-python
has a name that's not ugly at all :) 

Telsa, stirring :)