Hello, I have made an spec file for rpm which requires version of other rpm package.so i have added something similar to this in my VER=`rpm -iq packagename |...
mrinal deshpande
pmrinal@...
Sep 2, 2001 10:36 am
14867
... It is a bug in RPM. upgrade RPM. Emacs is my operating system, and Linux its device driver. -- Bake Timmons ...
Mike A. Harris
mharris@...
Sep 2, 2001 4:10 pm
14868
... Yup. In general, you can't do recursive rpm invocations because of database locking issues. You want either, for example: Requires: other_package >= 2.9 or...
Alan Eldridge
alane@...
Sep 2, 2001 4:12 pm
14869
At some point on August 22, my rom database became corrupt. What turn of events led to this I'm not sure. I updated rpm to rpm-4.0.3-0.91 and db3 to...
Stanley G. Bubrouski
stan@...
Sep 3, 2001 12:16 am
14870
hello, ... I can't do this because depending on version I have different cases. That is why I want to check the version of other_package into postinstall ...
mrinal deshpande
pmrinal@...
Sep 3, 2001 7:25 am
14871
Good morning, I try to build rpms without any success. I have written a makefile which contains an archive section. This section build a bzipped tarball...
BERTRAND Joël
bertrand@...
Sep 3, 2001 9:17 am
14872
I compiled rpm4 on 6.2 successfully, but I cannot use it because: 1. when I did rpm -q -all no packages were shown. 2. when I did rpm --rebuilddb no warnigs or...
Hubert Chylewski
hubert.chylewski@...
Sep 3, 2001 11:45 am
14873
On all current versiopns of Red Hat Linux the rpm database files are stored in /var/lib/rpm not /var/local/lib/rpm, so I'm assuming you tried to install rpm4...
Stanley G. Bubrouski
stan@...
Sep 3, 2001 5:45 pm
14874
... You want --target, not --buildarch. A couple of other comments below ... ... This is not an i18n field. Might work, might not. ... Usually this is...
Jeff Johnson
jbj@...
Sep 3, 2001 7:59 pm
14875
... Hmmm, this is more serious damage than the onesy-twoosy bad headers I usually see. Something else is wrong ... ... Try --rebuilddb with rpm-4.0.3-1.02...
Jeff Johnson
jbj@...
Sep 3, 2001 9:07 pm
14876
... I know, but I'm not sure what. db_dump seems to truncate the Basenames db, but even the truncated version still has the bad headers and still crashes rpm...
Stanley G. Bubrouski
stan@...
Sep 3, 2001 10:32 pm
14877
Hello! I got this working with rpm 4.0 and Mandrake 8.0 ( built as non-root ). The %make macro compiles with all available CPUs. The %makeinstall macro...
Bo Forslund
bo.forslund@...
Sep 4, 2001 3:55 am
14878
Thanks, but not much has really changed besides that now when I try to install a new package I get error with correct db path: error: cannot open Packages...
Hubert
hubert.chylewski@...
Sep 4, 2001 8:53 am
14879
Good morning, Thank you for your help. I have patched my rpl.spec file : Summary: A high level language for scientific computations Name: rpl Version: 4.00pre1...
BERTRAND Joël
bertrand@...
Sep 4, 2001 9:33 am
14880
... Do You have a file ~/.rpmmacros containing a line like this %_topdir /home/username/redhat You can call the dir redhat for whatever you like. Below...
Bo Forslund
bo.forslund@...
Sep 4, 2001 10:17 am
14881
... It works fine. Thank you for your help. Regards, JKB -- RPL/2, language for scientific computations at http://joel.k.bertrand.free.fr ...
BERTRAND Joël
bertrand@...
Sep 4, 2001 1:45 pm
14882
... # ~/.rpm/rpmrc for alane@... # # set vars up for building software locally as non-root # include: /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc macrofiles:...
Alan Eldridge
alane@...
Sep 4, 2001 2:07 pm
14883
... What? No you don't. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@... <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------>...
Matthew Miller
mattdm@...
Sep 4, 2001 2:12 pm
14884
... Hello, sorry for answering late: among the several answers I received, I'd lile to reply to these two: use up2date, or red carpet: these are solution that...
Marco Fioretti
marco.fioretti@...
Sep 4, 2001 4:06 pm
14885
Oops. My mistake. I coulda sworn it had moved to os from powertools. -- Alan Eldridge from std_disclaimer import * ...
Alan Eldridge
alane@...
Sep 4, 2001 5:09 pm
14886
... %makeinstall has mainly being implemented to play with %configure _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@......
Chmouel Boudjnah
chmouelb@...
Sep 4, 2001 5:46 pm
14887
... It might be a good idea for it to do so sometime, but there's all sorts of potential consequences like the RPM-building thing, so I understand RH being ...
Matthew Miller
mattdm@...
Sep 4, 2001 5:50 pm
14888
... Rather to play with *broken* autoconf or automake suit because correctly prepared am/ac (IMHO more than 90% cases) correctly supports DESTDIR style install...
Tomasz Koczko
kloczek@...
Sep 4, 2001 6:20 pm
14889
... Actually, this is not an automake problem, but a gettext problem. GNOME packages can't use the DESTDIR stuff because it breaks something in our ...
Gregory Leblanc
gleblanc@...
Sep 4, 2001 6:56 pm
14890
... Actualy this not gettext problem but lazy maintainers .. problems. At all .. run "gettextize --copy --force" will fix broken po/Makefile.in.in ... This not...
Tomasz Koczko
kloczek@...
Sep 4, 2001 10:29 pm
14891
hello, can anyone please tell me that is is possible to put query another rpm package from spec file of one rpm . Can I put something similar to below in...
mrinal deshpande
pmrinal@...
Sep 5, 2001 8:15 am
14892
... _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ...
mrinal deshpande
pmrinal@...
Sep 5, 2001 8:19 am
14893
... No, it is not. While the postinstall of this RPM package is running, it has a lock on the RPM database. While locked, no other package may ... First, you...
Mark Amidon
amidon@...
Sep 5, 2001 1:22 pm
14894
Good morning, I have made rpm's and I would like upload these RPMS at ftp://contrib.redhat.com. I have found a anonymous FTP server, by how can I upload my...
BERTRAND Joël
bertrand@...
Sep 5, 2001 4:12 pm
14895
Can anybody {tell me/point me to documentation} about the following two macros: %fix_perl_path %perl_make_install I've seen them in a few spec files for some...