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+ <B>Guillaume Rousse</B>
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+ <I>Thu Jul 19 16:09:03 CEST 2012</I>
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+<PRE>Le 19/07/2012 14:02, blind Pete a &#233;crit :
+&gt;<i> Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Le 19/07/2012 05:19, blind Pete a &#233;crit :
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> util-linux-ng-2.18-4.1.mga1.src.rpm is safely downloded to my local
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> drive. Now what do I do with it?
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> urpmi --install-src ./util*
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> gives a lot of errors about iurt not existing and using root
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> instead, but does not seem to install anything into /usr/src/RPM/
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> This is probably obvious to everyone here - except me.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> What is not obvious, tough, as what you are trying to achieve exactly...
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I want to look at the source code. I was expecting that command
+</I>&gt;<i> line to install (unpack) the source code into /usr/src/RPMS/ but
+</I>&gt;<i> maybe --install-src compiles and installs *from* source code?
+</I>According to the man page, it should just install the source package.
+However, if you already have the source package locally available, urpmi
+doesn't provide any added value over rpm. You'd better use rpm -i
+directly. And no need for root privileges here, unless you really want
+to use /usr/src/RPM tree.
+
+&gt;<i> Either way, what is the approved method of looking at the contents
+</I>&gt;<i> of a *.src.rpm file? An RTFM is perfectly apropriate here - as
+</I>&gt;<i> long as it includes a link to the FM.
+</I><A HREF="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Tasks/Packaging/Tools/RPM/Howto">http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Tasks/Packaging/Tools/RPM/Howto</A>
+might be a useful documentation, altough outdated on minor issues (rpm
+-b vs rpmbuild -b, automatic creation of rpm build tree, etc...).
+
+--
+BOFH excuse #391:
+
+We already sent around a notice about that.
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