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Re: Removing old source packages


On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 03:52:18PM +0100, andrew brian clegg wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > N.B.: the above will not apply as soon as the RPM package is used, since
> > that package apparently uses a subdirectory in /usr/src as the RPM
> > repository, so beware.
> 
> One subdir for rpm as a whole, or one subdir for each package it manages?

If you have the rpm-devel package installed, leave /usr/src/rpm alone.
RPM uses this directory to build packages.

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Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc.
alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com

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