Dumb question

[Andrew Mathews]

Tom Wilson wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I am almost (almost that is) embarrassed to ask this.  
> 
> Got a Redhat 7.3 install and I've tried to install source RPM's to no 
> avail.  Well I found out that there is no /usr/src/redhat directory and 
> it's subdirectories.  I *thought* that I had installed all the goodies 
> during install;  kernel-utils, kernel-source, 
> glibc-kernheaders-2.4-7.16.  I've installed it previously and and those 
> directories where there so I'm not sure what I missed here.
> 
> Question is, can I just create the /usr/src/redhat directory and it's 
> subdirectories with no harm done?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Tom Wilson
> 

You should be able to create it with no dire consequences. You should 
also make BUILD, RPMS, SOURCES,  SPECS, & SRPMS within it also. These 
are created by rpm-build-4.0.4-7x.18 so do an rpm -qa | grep rpm and see 
if it's installed. I suspect not.

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Andrew Mathews
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