Has anyone tried rpm 4.2.0-65 on RH 8 yet? If so any opinions? -- Ted Kaczmarek <tedkaz@...> _______________________________________________ Rpm-list...
Ted Kaczmarek
tedkaz@...
Feb 2, 2003 2:16 pm
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... I have. ... rpm-4.2 is mostly "cooked" at this point. There are a couple of areas that are going to be painful. 1) rpm-4.2 uses db-4.1.24 db-4.1.24 is...
Jeff Johnson
jbj@...
Feb 2, 2003 2:59 pm
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... Thanks a bunch Jeff. Where would rpm be without you :-) Ted _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@... ...
Ted Kaczmarek
tedkaz@...
Feb 2, 2003 3:27 pm
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I get complaints abouts ExtUtils::MakeMaker when trying to build cpan2rpm , just for kicks I have ignored it. In testing it on few modules I have not seen any...
Ted Kaczmarek
tedkaz@...
Feb 2, 2003 5:43 pm
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... The core engine may not be getting slower, but default policies are making rpm -seem- slower for the average user. The most common example is slowness of...
Chip Turner
cturner@...
Feb 2, 2003 8:48 pm
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... Interesting... time scans... [smooge@smoogen1 smooge]$ time /usr/bin/rpmquery -qa > /dev/null real 0m17.845s user 0m4.340s sys 0m0.720s ...
Stephen Smoogen
smoogen@...
Feb 2, 2003 10:22 pm
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anil bindal
bindal@...
Feb 3, 2003 6:16 am
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Hi all, It's been confirmed today : I'll be able to go to the FOSDEM in Brussels this week-end! For those of you who don't know what the FOSDEM is (it stands...
Matthias Saou
matthias@...
Feb 3, 2003 2:43 pm
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Sorry... wrong "rpm-list"... not the first time I do this :-( -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Red Hat Linux release 8.0.9x...
Matthias Saou
matthias@...
Feb 3, 2003 2:44 pm
20221
... You shouldn't. :) ... There has been a change of paradigm as to how MakeMaker diverts the installation paths (as needed when building rpms under /var/tmp)....
Axel Thimm
Axel.Thimm@...
Feb 3, 2003 6:44 pm
20222
This is an enhancement request, I suppose, but a pretty low urgency one. RPM 4.0.4's find-required only examines files marked executable, which is good....
Dan Kegel
dkegel@...
Feb 3, 2003 11:06 pm
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Is there a way to tell rpmbuild to not scan certain directories for prerequisites? If I'm packaging up a cross-development toolchain with RPM, it appears that...
Dan Kegel
dkegel@...
Feb 4, 2003 12:10 am
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... "AutoReqProv: no" is your friend.. :) What it does is turn off the find-requires and find-provides. Then what you should do is manually specify the...
Mark Hatle
fray@...
Feb 4, 2003 12:45 am
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... Ah, thanks! - Dan _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@... ...
Dan Kegel
dkegel@...
Feb 4, 2003 12:57 am
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... I suggest to let rpm operate in /opt/crosstools/sh4/target as its ... Probably, you will have to use the '--ignorearch' option because rpm does not honor...
Enrico Scholz
enrico.scholz@...
Feb 4, 2003 1:19 am
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... I don't think --root is the right way to go. That would be right if I were cross-building an rpm. Instead, I'm building an rpm that contains a...
Dan Kegel
dkegel@...
Feb 4, 2003 1:52 am
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... AFAIS, your package contains /bin/ls and /libc.so so you are cross-building an rpm. The cross-compiler itself does not need tricks like '--root' or ...
Enrico Scholz
enrico.scholz@...
Feb 4, 2003 2:08 am
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... Nope. I'm building an RPM that contains a cross /bin/ls and cross libc.so. The resulting RPM contains all the files needed to build a bootable Linux...
Dan Kegel
dkegel@...
Feb 4, 2003 2:16 am
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Supposing I want to package all files in a directory, what exactly is the difference between using /foo/bar and /foo/bar/* in %files? From what I can tell,...
Todd Pytel
tppytel@...
Feb 4, 2003 5:20 am
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... I think (but not sure) /foo/bar/* will not match files .something Valery ... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail...
Valery Reznic
valery_reznic@...
Feb 4, 2003 8:07 am
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Hello, I have a software for which I have created relocatable rpm package making use of "--prefix" tag. I need help regarding the following. Since software...
Manjula
mramacha@...
Feb 4, 2003 11:39 am
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... That is the only difference. If you are installing files to /usr/bin you want to use /usr/bin/*, because you didn't put /usr/bin there. However if your...
Peter Bowen
pzb@...
Feb 4, 2003 1:24 pm
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... You need a cros-development aware find-reauires. Override %__find_requires and %__find_provides with your own script. 73 de Jeff -- Jeff Johnson ARS N3NPQ ...
Jeff Johnson
jbj@...
Feb 4, 2003 1:38 pm
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... The general packaging rule is If a package owns all the files in a directory, then it should own the directory too. Personally, I'm in favor of every...
Jeff Johnson
jbj@...
Feb 4, 2003 1:47 pm
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Hello, Any help??? Regs, Manjula Hello, I have a software for which I have created relocatable rpm package making use of "--prefix" tag. I need help regarding...
Manjula
mramacha@...
Feb 4, 2003 1:47 pm
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Hi, I just switched from RedHat 7.x to RedHat 8.0. Now I have problems creating an rpm-file. What I want to do is just pack some directory tree located under...
Michael Mueller
michael_p_mueller@...
Feb 4, 2003 6:55 pm
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... May be exist some rpm config option, but following should work in any case: ln -s / /some/place and now use /some/place as your buildroot Valery ... ...
Valery Reznic
valery_reznic@...
Feb 4, 2003 7:17 pm
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Thanks Jeff, Peter, and Valery for the replies. Also, could someone confirm or deny Valery's statement that /foo/bar/* will not match hidden files? Todd ...
Todd Pytel
tppytel@...
Feb 4, 2003 10:43 pm
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I'm putting together an installation disk for a custom distro and would like to have all the necessary RPM tools loaded to a ramdisk. What files from...
Todd Pytel
tppytel@...
Feb 4, 2003 10:45 pm
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... The simple glob pattern * via either `glob()' or the more general `fnmatch()' calls never matches hidden filesystem objects. It's a basic rule of...