On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 15:39 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 at 3:36pm, Dave wrote > > > I've got a centos 4.4 box and i'd like to make some rpms for it. My first > > task is to recompile an srpm removing some options to customize it. I tried > > rpmbuild, which worked on a fedora install, but that command wasn't > > available. What rpm do i have to install to make rpms? I've got rpmdb, rpm, > > and rpm-libs already installed. I thought the missing one was rpm-utils, but > > no go. > > $ yum provides /usr/bin/rpmbuild > rpm-build.i386 4.3.3-18_nonptl base > Matched from: > /usr/bin/rpmbuild See http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/YumAndRPM "Get set up for rebuilding packages while not being root". I like Method B. Phil