posted 13 years ago
Don't confuse the "rpm" command with the "rpmbuild" command. Unless at long last they finally laid it to rest, the official RPM docs say that the command to build RPMs is "rpm -ba" and that hasn't been the case for years.
To create an RPM, use Ant's rpmbuild task. To install, update, validate or remove an RPM, use the OS "rpm" command via Ant's exec task.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.