topic Removing Build files in Operating System - Linux

Removing Build files

kenny chia — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:28:40 GMT

Hi
I installed kernel source into a Red Hat ES 4 system..

# rpm kernel-2.6.9-34.EL.src.rpm
# cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
# rpmbuild -bp --target i686 kernel-2.6.spec

This created alot of files in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9
Now I have no need for the source code already.

Running # rpmbuild --clean --rmsource --rmspec kernel-2.6.spec does not seem to remove that directory and its files.

How do I cleanly remove all the files? do I just simply remove the directory? ie rm -rf /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9

Re: Removing Build files

Jeeshan — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:59:06 GMT

remove like this

rpm -e kernel-2.6.9-34.EL.src.rpm

Re: Removing Build files

Jeeshan — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:06:17 GMT

to remove rpm use this command

rpm -e kernel-2.6.9-34.EL.src.rpm

Re: Removing Build files

kenny chia — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:34:44 GMT

Hi
The command does not work..

# rpm -e --test kernel-2.6.9-34.EL.src.rpm
error: package kernel-2.6.9-34.EL.src.rpm is not installed

Re: Removing Build files

Stuart Browne — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:45:58 GMT

You can't remove 'src' rpms using any rpm command.

Yes, you can just remove the directory and files it created:

/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/kernel-*
/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec

There might be one or two other files/directories about that you want to remove, but they are the main source of polution. If you don't do any other building on the machine, then all of the contents of the BUILD, SOURCES and SPECS directories is able to be removed (but not the directories them selves).

Re: Removing Build files

kenny chia — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:54:32 GMT

Hi Stuart
Thanks