> I wanted to know your guys' success rate when installing and rebuilding > RPMs in CentOS (specifically 4.0) that have come from Dag's Repositories > (http://dag.wieers.com/packages/). dag's rpms have been 99.9999999999% flawless for me on both centos and RHEL > I have noticed a number of these packages stalling at various points > throughout an rpmbuild process, and I can't quite get it. It looks > almost as if they were all built for RHEL4.0, but if CentOS is supposed > to follow so close in RHEL's footsteps, why would this be a problem? I suspect something in your build system is possibly screwed. I've not had any issues rebuilding the few packages I've needed to. > > I'll give Dag an email and see if he has anything to say about that. > Once I get enough information, I'll just go ahead and hack up the RPMs > so that they work properly on my systems - but I thought I'd ask > beforehand, as to not re-invent the wheel. Rebuilding the prebuilt packages would seem to me to be reinventing the wheel. Is there a reason that you need to rebuild them? -- Jim Perrin System Administrator Ft. Gordon & US Army Signal Center