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Description of Problem: rpm --rebuild no longer works? How Reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. download a .src.rpm from redhat 2. rpm --rebuild file.src.rpm Actual Results: [root@printserv-01 /root]# uname -a Linux printserv-01 2.4.2-2 #1 Sun Apr 8 20:41:30 EDT 2001 i686 unknown [root@printserv-01 /root]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf) [root@printserv-01 /root]# rpm --rebuild netscape-4.77-1.src.rpm RPM version 4.0.2 Copyright (C) 1998-2000 - Red Hat, Inc. This program may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPL Usage: rpm {--help} rpm {--version} rpm {--initdb} [--dbpath <dir>] rpm {--install -i} [-v] [--hash -h] [--percent] [--force] [--test] [--replacepkgs] [--replacefiles] [--root <dir>] [--excludedocs] [--includedocs] [--noscripts] [--rcfile <file>] [--ignorearch] [--dbpath <dir>] [--prefix <dir>] [--ignoreos] [--nodeps] [--allfiles] [--ftpproxy <host>] [--ftpport <port>] [--httpproxy <host>] [--httpport <port>] [--justdb] [--noorder] [--relocate oldpath=newpath] [--badreloc] [--notriggers] [--excludepath <path>] [--ignoresize] file1.rpm ... fileN.rpm rpm {--upgrade -U} [-v] [--hash -h] [--percent] [--force] [--test] [--oldpackage] [--root <dir>] [--noscripts] [--excludedocs] [--includedocs] [--rcfile <file>] [--ignorearch] [--dbpath <dir>] [--prefix <dir>] [--ftpproxy <host>] [--ftpport <port>] [--httpproxy <host>] [--httpport <port>] [--ignoreos] [--nodeps] [--allfiles] [--justdb] [--noorder] [--relocate oldpath=newpath] [--badreloc] [--excludepath <path>] [--ignoresize] file1.rpm ... fileN.rpm rpm {--query -q} [-afpg] [-i] [-l] [-s] [-d] [-c] [-v] [-R] [--scripts] [--root <dir>] [--rcfile <file>] [--whatprovides] [--whatrequires] [--requires] [--triggeredby] [--ftpproxy <host>] [--ftpport <port>] [--httpproxy <host>] [--httpport <port>] [--provides] [--triggers] [--dump] [--changelog] [--dbpath <dir>] [targets] rpm {--verify -V -y} [-afpg] [--root <dir>] [--rcfile <file>] [--dbpath <dir>] [--nodeps] [--nofiles] [--noscripts] [--nomd5] [targets] rpm {--setperms} [-afpg] [target] rpm {--setugids} [-afpg] [target] rpm {--freshen -F} file1.rpm ... fileN.rpm rpm {--erase -e} [--root <dir>] [--noscripts] [--rcfile <file>] [--dbpath <dir>] [--nodeps] [--allmatches] [--justdb] [--notriggers] package1 ... packageN rpm {--resign} [--rcfile <file>] package1 package2 ... packageN rpm {--addsign} [--rcfile <file>] package1 package2 ... packageN rpm {--checksig -K} [--nopgp] [--nogpg] [--nomd5] [--rcfile <file>] package1 ... packageN rpm {--rebuilddb} [--rcfile <file>] [--dbpath <dir>] rpm {--querytags} [root@printserv-01 /root]# Expected Results: For it to build the binary.rpm of the .src.rpm and dump it into /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 Additional Information:
Install the rpm-build package.