[PLUG] RPM v build from source- removing?
Wil Cooley
wcooley at nakedape.cc
Fri May 24 01:22:27 UTC 2002
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 17:01, Longman, Bill wrote:
> > I prefer to just install to a local prefix. Then uninstall really is
> > just an `rm -rf' and the price is just a tiny bit of $PATH
> > maintenance. Don't have to worry about filename clashes that way,
> > either. Don't need no steenking "make uninstall".
>
> This was a bit of a question that's been clanking around up top. Is that the
> typical way to get a source rpm to install into my directory of choice. In
> other words, what's the rpm equivalent of "tar xvf filename" when "filename"
> is a, say, kernel source rpm?
I just wrote up a brief description of this the other day...
http://nakedape.cc/wiki/index.cgi/RpmNotes
Wil
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