Hi, I've been wondering what the best way or requiring installed packages to rebuild SRPMs was. I've always been using "BuildRequires:", but it seems to be...
Matthias Saou
matthias@...
Nov 3, 2001 6:33 am
15509
Hello, I've just upgraded to rh72 and have been checking the upgrade.log to see if I need to "fix" any configuration files. Why does rpm produce .rpmnew...
Simon J Mudd
sjmudd@...
Nov 3, 2001 7:04 am
15510
... As I understand it, BuildRequires and BuildPreReq are different names for the same thing. Clearly these things have to be installed -before- the build...
Gregory Leblanc
gleblanc@...
Nov 3, 2001 8:27 am
15511
... rpm -ta traball.tar.gz where the spec file is present ... -- Russ Herrold _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list ...
R P Herrold
herrold@...
Nov 4, 2001 1:44 am
15512
... Assuming the tarball has a spec file in it, then rpm -tb my-tarball.tgz should do the trick (-ta would build both source and binary rpms, etc). Malcolm -- ...
Malcolm Tredinnick
malcolm@...
Nov 4, 2001 1:44 am
15513
... Assuming that the tarball contains a spec file (and only 1 spec file), then simply running 'rpmbuild -bi tarball.tar.gz' should produce a binary RPM. Greg ...
Gregory Leblanc
gleblanc@...
Nov 4, 2001 2:04 am
15514
Hello! I have just installed Mandrake 8.1 and when I try to install an rpm I get the message rpmdb: region error detected; run recovery Can someone tell what...
Bo Forslund
bo.forslund@...
Nov 4, 2001 2:23 am
15515
... Where do the spec file (and other patches go) within the tarball? ie if i have file-1.2.3.tgz where do I put these files in file-1.2.3/SPECS/ ...
Simon J Mudd
sjmudd@...
Nov 4, 2001 11:07 am
15516
Hi! On MandrakeLinux Cooker (or any rpm 4.0.3 based distro, I suppose), how can I build a RPM but have the binaries be NOT stripped, ie....
Alexander Skwar
ASkwar@...
Nov 4, 2001 12:45 pm
15517
... It is a fresh out of the box install and it is impossible to install new rpms or do quieries or anything. Everything gives the message rpm --<any-option>...
Bo Forslund
bo.forslund@...
Nov 4, 2001 1:12 pm
15518
... The spec file just needs to end in .spec and be placed in the tarball. It should be the only file that ends in .spec as that is what RPM uses to find it....
Peter Bowen
pzb@...
Nov 4, 2001 2:32 pm
15519
I'm running rpm version 4.0.2 (package rpm-4.0.2-8), but have experienced this problem with every version of rpm that I've tried since the --relocate option...
Aaron Gaudio
prothonotar@...
Nov 4, 2001 7:11 pm
15520
... Understood. ... Although I guess the patches would be within the tar ball and that the spec file would thus know how to apply them in the build process. ...
Simon J Mudd
sjmudd@...
Nov 4, 2001 8:23 pm
15521
Hi there, I'm working on various scripts at the moment. All the ones intended for web interfaces, I've always done in php since I really need only postgresql ...
Matthias Saou
matthias@...
Nov 5, 2001 1:36 pm
15522
Folks, Environ: Radhat 7.2 Athlon Asus Motherboard My rpm seem to be massively corrupted and I don't know what to do.. Ajay ...
Ajay Agrawalla
aagrawalla@...
Nov 5, 2001 10:37 pm
15523
Here is a copy of my rebuilddb command rpm --rebuilddb -v rpmdb: unable to create/retrieve page 4071 rpmdb: PANIC: Input/output error error: db3 error(-30988)...
Ajay Agrawalla
aagrawalla@...
Nov 5, 2001 10:37 pm
15524
I'm about to embark on an embedded project and will have to figure out how to build the cross-compiler and other tools. I figure that it makes sense to...
Kenneth Porter
shiva@...
Nov 6, 2001 1:27 am
15525
I have a RH 7.1 system but I want to upgrade emacs to the new emacs-21 from rawhide. When I try to build emacs I get errors from some duplicate...
I have a RH 7.1 system but I want to upgrade emacs to the new emacs-21 from rawhide. When I try to build emacs I get errors from some duplicate...
Steven W. Orr
steveo@...
Nov 6, 2001 10:53 am
15528
i just want to extract the files from an .rpm file, in the directory of my choice, without updating any of the rpm database. in other words, this extraction...
rpjday
rpjday@...
Nov 6, 2001 11:18 am
15529
... cd /dir/of/your/choice ; rpm2cpio /path/to/file.rpm | cpio -id Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english)...
Alexander Skwar
ASkwar@...
Nov 6, 2001 11:23 am
15530
Dear PACKAGEING GURUS I've such a question. I want to make an rpm which will do the following when the user installs it (rpm -i file.rpm) 1. untar and gunzup...
Karen MKOYAN
Karen.Mkoyan@...
Nov 6, 2001 12:48 pm
15531
I've run in to a couple of issues with RPM, and I was hoping someone could provide some insight, and maybe even a workaround/fix.... History: We're looking at...
Brian J. McGovern
bmcgover@...
Nov 6, 2001 2:47 pm
15532
Hi, Iam trying to build a RPM for 4SuiteServer with a 3 patch files. The patches have to be applied after the command python2 setup.py install has been...
Scott Alexander
scottalexander@...
Nov 6, 2001 3:29 pm
15533
... [snip] ... [snip] ... Try replacing these three lines (patch, /usr/lib..., OoRes...) with %patch0, and see if that works better. You may have to play...
Gregory Leblanc
gleblanc@...
Nov 6, 2001 5:26 pm
15534
I'm using 3.0.5-9.6x on my old system and am hoping someone with 4.* can tell me if this is fixed in the current version, so I'll know whether to open a new...
Kenneth Porter
shiva@...
Nov 7, 2001 1:38 am
15535
You want the magic -P. %doc -P info/README Thanks. Peter ... _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@... ...
Peter Bowen
pzb@...
Nov 7, 2001 1:45 am
15536
... Thanks. I've submitted a bugzilla against texinfo. The man page for cp seems to deprecate that as it's going to be recycled as --no-dereference for POSIX...
Kenneth Porter
shiva@...
Nov 7, 2001 2:59 am
15537
... ... -P, --parents append source path to DIRECTORY ... Be forewarned, the use of a shell script to populate docdir is known broken wrto other spec file...