Being Newer Than Red Hat

Kent Borg kentborg at borg.org
Mon Aug 12 17:48:02 EDT 2002


On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 05:38:57PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Not really.  You can check www.rpm.org, but frankly the docs suck
> hairy monkey balls.

Dang, I've always been put off by how confusing the man pages are, but
am feeling motivated to push past that...

> > My question: aren't the sources still going to be sitting
> > somehwere?  (Where?)
> 
> /usr/src/redhat/*
>         SOURCES -> tarball and patchfile sources
>         BUILD -> the build tree
>         SPECS -> where the SPEC files live
>         RPMS -> built RPMS
>         SRPMS -> built SRPMS

Well, I swear I looked there.  So I asked again to install the
sources, and looked again...and there they are!  Did my rpmbuild
delete the cvs sources the first time around?

> Well, you don't have the right key on your keyring.  I have no idea
> what key they use .

I guess it makes sense that they have a very carefully protected key
that they only use for releases, and not for things like rawhide
parts.  Gotta go looking, I guess.

Thanks,

-kb



More information about the Discuss mailing list