what if the rpmbuild --rebuild failed

[joecho at everestkc.net]

Hello,

I didn't do 
#rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.i386.rpm

I did only source file:
#rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm

One thing I should know first what the the kernel development package
are.

I've never developed kernel before.

What I have done was just using rpm installation for updating,
install packages previous.
That's why I'm really having a challenge for installing video card.
To be honest, one time a few year ago,
I had a Dell Inspiron, at that time video card was ATI,
at the beginning I had some problem, but I found a driver
which was *.rpm binary, and it worked well.

Now, I guess this laptop has relatively new and advanced components
compared to the old one tha I had.
most time a new LAPTOP gives some headache that I expected.

Could you give more tips how to compile and build this monster?

Thanks!

Joe Cho
joecho at everestkc.net
ksjoecho at yahoo.com
root at infosavvy.tech.new.net

 

----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Steinkuehler <charles at steinkuehler.net>
Subject: Re: what if the rpmbuild --rebuild failed

> joecho at everestkc.net wrote:
> > Hello, 
> > I haven't resolved this issue yet
> > even though some good folks gave some advices
> > how to configure overwhelmly.
> > 
> > One folk asked me to read REAME on nvidia.com
> > web site.
> > well, I tried that already, but it doesn't work
> > that way.
> > If it worked, then why should I bother
> > people who are the busiest professionals
> > in the world in KC.
> > 
> > Back to my problem.
> > I tried to rebuild using
> > 
> > #rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm
> > #rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.i386.rpm
> > I got errors like this at the end of make:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Well, it is really tenacious.
> > Any comments on this??
> 
> Are you sure you have the kernel development packages installed?
> 
> Also, I'm not sure if it's a typo or not, but you can't run:
> #rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.i386.rpm
> 
> ...which is trying to rebuild a package from it's binary 
> distribution. 
> You need to grab the source package for NVIDIA_GLX if you want to 
> re-build it.
> 
> -- 
> Charles Steinkuehler
> charles at steinkuehler.net
> 
> 
>