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Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 11:23:50 -0700
From: Dario Alcocer <alcocer AT helixdigital DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Removing old source packages
Message-ID: <20030606112350.A17123@ns.helixdigital.com>
References: <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 44 DOT 0306061022430 DOT 25752-100000 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> <Pine DOT LNX DOT 4 DOT 44 DOT 0306061550560 DOT 4156-100000 AT sark DOT cryst DOT bbk DOT ac DOT uk>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306061550560.4156-100000@sark.cryst.bbk.ac.uk>; from a.clegg@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk on Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 03:52:18PM +0100

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.

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

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