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
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