I'm getting seg faults everytime I try to to remove or freshen an RPM on my Red Hat 7.2 system. I have rebuilt the rpmdb several times and still get this...
Tom Georgoulias
tomg@...
Apr 1, 2002 11:40 pm
17230
Hello, all! I've been working on a couple of packages for some time and am thoroughly annoyed with having to do a full package rebuild just to update a pre- or...
William Black
wjblack@...
Apr 2, 2002 2:14 am
17231
I'm pleased to announce the poldek - a console frontend for RPM allowing easy package management. Features include: - package installation, upgrade and removal...
Pawel A. Gajda
mis@...
Apr 2, 2002 3:53 am
17232
Not sure what I'm doing wrong here... I'm trying to run the "%prep" section of ucd-snmp-4.2.1 on a Compaq Proliant DL360 running Redhat 7.2 ... but every time...
Jeremy Schneider
jer1887@...
Apr 2, 2002 3:53 am
17233
I too am getting this error message: [root@waugh rpm]# rpm --rebuilddb *** dbiUpdateRecord: uh is NULL Segmentation fault (core dumped) ...
Bob Havlin
bob@...
Apr 2, 2002 3:54 am
17234
Versions: 4.0.2, 4.0.4 `--buildroot' option is still documented both in man and in `--help' output. However, `rpmbuild' ignores `--buildroot' command line ...
Golubev I. N.
gin@...
Apr 2, 2002 3:54 am
17235
AutoRPM 2.5 has been released! ftp://ftp.kaybee.org/pub/redhat/RPMS/noarch/autorpm-2.5-1.noarch.rpm ftp://ftp.kaybee.org/pub/redhat/SRPMS/autorpm-2.5-1.src.rpm...
Kirk Bauer
kirk@...
Apr 2, 2002 5:16 am
17236
... I'm going to take a wild guess ... do you have any DOS line-endings in the spec file? _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list...
Bill Crawford
rpm@...
Apr 2, 2002 7:28 am
17237
... Something similar happened to me once when I didn't have the rpm-build package installed. Might this be your problem, too? -matt ...
Matthew R . MacIntyre
matt@...
Apr 2, 2002 1:44 pm
17238
Hey Kirk -- First of all AutoRPM is a really cool peice of software. Thanks for creating it. Second of all... I would like to modify the 'sources/source rpm'...
Jeff Baldwin
baldwinj@...
Apr 2, 2002 3:31 pm
17239
... Well, doco and real software are out of sync in RPM. That's what makes it so fascinating -:) Seriously, --define "buildroot my-directory-where-to-build" ...
Sergey Ostrovsky
sostrovsky@...
Apr 3, 2002 12:24 am
17240
We created a rpm that is apparently causing a loop when trying to query it, both from rpm 3.0.5 and rpm 4.0.4. The rpm triggering the bug can be found at ...
Lionel CONS
lionel.cons@...
Apr 4, 2002 2:06 pm
17241
... I predict: You have a db1 format database, and have a loop in the chain of package headers in the file /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm. Are you using a db1...
Jeff Johnson
jbj@...
Apr 4, 2002 2:13 pm
17242
Same here; leaves /var/lib/rpm/__db* files lying around. --rebuilddb segfaults, -qa hangs (after displaying a bunch), -e and -U bomb with DB_INCOMPLETE and ...
Rodent of Unusual Size
Ken.Coar@...
Apr 4, 2002 2:36 pm
17243
Additional info from --rebuilddb -vv; tail end right before it crapped out. I tried to -e gnuchess earlier (among others) and got a DB_INCOMPLETE, so maybe...
Rodent of Unusual Size
Ken.Coar@...
Apr 4, 2002 2:37 pm
17244
... OK, after coffee and looking at the package: You have a massive number of file paths in Provides:, not good. This won't work right with rpm-3.0.x, and...
Jeff Johnson
jbj@...
Apr 4, 2002 2:58 pm
17245
I know I initially stated this whole shebang, but still no solution. Jeff, have you had the opportunity to compile 4.0.4 on Solaris? If anyone has done so and...
Auteria Wally Winzer ...
wally.winzer@...
Apr 4, 2002 3:29 pm
17246
... Checkout from CVS on the rpm-4_0 branch compiles for me on solaris. 73 de Jeff -- Jeff Johnson ARS N3NPQ jbj@... (jbj@...) Chapel Hill, NC ...
Jeff Johnson
jbj@...
Apr 4, 2002 3:40 pm
17247
... In fact, it's not a loop at all, you've added 22406 Provides: that are being repeatedly bsearch'ed with strcmp during dependency checking. Adding file...
Jeff Johnson
jbj@...
Apr 4, 2002 4:28 pm
17248
... In fact, you've got ~10K duplicate Provide:'s, get rid of the duplicates and you'll get a huge performance boost. 73 de Jeff -- Jeff Johnson ARS N3NPQ ...
Jeff Johnson
jbj@...
Apr 4, 2002 4:49 pm
17249
... You neglected to ask him the standard question: "What are you trying to accomplish?" Correct me if I'm wrong, Jeff, since you're the expert, but there's...
Chris Garrigues
cwg-rpm@...
Apr 4, 2002 5:04 pm
17250
... He's trying to accomplish a lightweight install, basically cloning all the elements of a "standard" os install into a virtual package, in order to...
Jeff Johnson
jbj@...
Apr 4, 2002 5:27 pm
17251
Here are just a few error messages I have noticed (in the process of working on AutoRPM) that could be clearer. [all with rpm-4.0.4-7x] 1) I run an obviously...
Kirk Bauer
kirk@...
Apr 4, 2002 5:54 pm
17252
What's the procedure redhat uses for anon CVS? Wally Winzer Jr. ... From: "Jeff Johnson" <jbj@...> To: <rpm-list@...> Sent: Thursday, April 04,...
Auteria Wally Winzer ...
wally.winzer@...
Apr 4, 2002 6:00 pm
17253
... Yup. The "Success" is what's bothering you, you're missing the "failed". ... Yup. Dunno if I have the argument at the point the message is printed. ... ...
Jeff Johnson
jbj@...
Apr 4, 2002 6:09 pm
17254
... I think the answer to that last one is "use the -v flag" ... it's a good point though. Stick the package name in a global variable, one global variable is...
Bill Crawford
rpm@...
Apr 4, 2002 8:40 pm
17255
... Hacks on top of hacks on top of hacks ..., sigh. The real problem is lack of functionality in rpm, not the stinking error message. rpm does not handle...
Jeff Johnson
jbj@...
Apr 4, 2002 8:56 pm
17256
... Shame. I thought kickstart had some support for shared filesystems though? Solaris handles this via a nasty hack: "root" and "usr" subpackages. ... ...
Bill Crawford
rpm@...
Apr 4, 2002 9:29 pm
17257
For those of you who are searching archives of this list, more details and the resolution of this problem can be found in this report: ...
Tom Georgoulias
tomg@...
Apr 5, 2002 12:09 am
17258
Is it possible to define a shell function at the top of a specfile and use it in several locations (across multiple scriptlets) throughout. I don't wish to...
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