hello guys i would like to make a rpm that just extracts a .tar.gz file to a directory, but how should the spec look to do this ? /Thomas ...
Thomas Elsgaard
Te@...
Dec 1, 2003 10:19 am
23589
... It sort of depends, but let's assume that * the package will live in /opt/foo-1.0 * the source tarball is foo-1.0.tar.gz * the source tarball will unpack...
Paul Heinlein
heinlein@...
Dec 1, 2003 4:28 pm
23590
I've been poking around the openssl 0.9.7a-20 .spec, and I can't wrap my head around how the /lib/lib{crypto,ssl}.so.4 symlinks get installed via the openssl...
Paul Heinlein
heinlein@...
Dec 1, 2003 6:34 pm
23591
... /sbin/ldconfig creates it, AFAIK. Cheers, -- -- Jos Vos <jos@...> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam,...
Jos Vos
jos@...
Dec 1, 2003 6:42 pm
23592
My little rpm app is giving me some frightful valgrind results. My code is pretty much: rpmReadConfigFiles(NULL, NULL); rpmdbOpen(NULL, &db, O_RDONLY, 0644); ...
... 9 bytes is hardly the end of the world. For example, there are leaks in glibc at least that big, and the popt API forces reallocation of args. Hard to say...
Jeff Johnson
n3npq@...
Dec 1, 2003 7:16 pm
23595
... 9 I can live with, but the still reachable worried me some. ... Yeah, I figured such. Thanks for the confirmation. Cory 'G' Watson ...
Cory 'G' Watson
gphat@...
Dec 1, 2003 7:20 pm
23596
Hi All, does anyone know how to verify an user password on linux(unix) without login of that user id? is there any built-in command that I can use to verify an...
Ben Tu
BTu@...
Dec 1, 2003 10:31 pm
23597
I haven't seen anything besides "don't do it" in my googling, but I figure someone has done it. How do folks create spec files to support different...
Hal Wine
hal@...
Dec 2, 2003 1:39 am
23598
... For starters: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rpm-list/message/19658?source=1 -- jim knoble | jmknoble@... | http://www.pobox.com/~jmknoble/ (GnuPG...
Jim Knoble
jmknoble@...
Dec 2, 2003 2:19 am
23599
Hi, We had just upgraded Linux from 6.2 to 7.3 and is having problem with .bash_profile 'exit'. User's .bash_profile reads as follows: ... cd /dir1 ./menu exit...
Suat Lee
suatlee.tan@...
Dec 2, 2003 2:45 am
23600
... The version of bash changed between Red Hat Linux 6.2 (bash-1.14) and Red Hat Linux 7.3 (bash-2.0x). Read the bash manual page on your RHL-7.3 system: man...
Jim Knoble
jmknoble@...
Dec 2, 2003 2:57 am
23601
I am trying to use rpm-4.2 on Solaris 8. If I specify a directory that contains another directory in %files, then then rpmbuild -ba stops at: make[1]: Leaving...
Aaron.Sterr
Aaron.Sterr@...
Dec 2, 2003 8:25 am
23602
hus far, nobody followed up my request. If nobody will vote against this proposal the next couple of days, I will go adding it to the TP robot site. Who does...
Karl Eichwalder
ke@...
Dec 2, 2003 10:58 am
23603
... Okay, I need to refine my google skills.... ... Thanks, much, Jim. That's a great starting point. Can you give any guidance on how much "extra" time is...
Hal Wine
hal@...
Dec 2, 2003 9:26 pm
23604
... No worries. ... Disclaimer: it's been a while since i did a lot of work in this area. When i was more actively doing this, i was doing two sorts of things:...
Jim Knoble
jmknoble@...
Dec 2, 2003 10:02 pm
23605
I've done a great deal of this. The amount of extra time needed to support a spec that works on multiple distros is quite large. It is mostly testing effort,...
Bart Whiteley
bwhiteley@...
Dec 2, 2003 11:02 pm
23606
Greetings, I recently upgraded glibc on my Linux box from glibc-2.2.5 to glibc-2.3.2 (built from source). Unfortunately, this broke some rpm functionality....
L. Friedman
netllama@...
Dec 3, 2003 3:31 am
23607
... Others have already given you some pointers. I've been building Postfix for RH versions from 5.x-EL 3.0 (Yellowdog, Mandrake) with various optional bits...
Simon J Mudd
sjmudd@...
Dec 3, 2003 8:32 am
23608
Hi I have created multi-disrto rpm for RH7.2 , AS2.1 & suse there were lots of dependencies but now its ready for market. Need any info or help !!!! ... From:...
sachin
sachin.gupta@...
Dec 3, 2003 8:50 am
23609
Hi all, We am trying to write a C program that must act as a front-end for RPM. We have decided to go for the latest version (4.2.1) of RPM. But the package ...
Ram Prakash. R
ramp@...
Dec 3, 2003 11:57 am
23610
... This is bzip2, not rpm, problem. Upgrade or rebuild bzip2. 73 de Jeff _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list ...
Jeff Johnson
n3npq@...
Dec 3, 2003 3:10 pm
23611
Hi All- Is there an easy way in a package %post script to identify the previous package version? I need to take some actions conditional on what the version...
Aaron Hanson
a.hanson@...
Dec 3, 2003 7:37 pm
23612
... Sure, write script that tests for previous package, use md5sum on some file if all else fails. That's the most portable solution. There are triggers that...
Jeff Johnson
n3npq@...
Dec 3, 2003 8:15 pm
23613
All, I have built rpm 4.1 for arm-linux, to run on arm-linux. But it doesn't work. :( What am I doing wrong? Oh, you want more detail? ;) So far, I have rpm...
Eli Carter
eli.carter@...
Dec 3, 2003 8:22 pm
23614
... From: rpm-list-admin@... [mailto:rpm-list-admin@...] On Behalf Of Jeff Johnson Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 12:12 PM To:...
Aaron Hanson
a.hanson@...
Dec 3, 2003 8:27 pm
23615
All, I was looking for a way I could take a group of binary rpms, convert them to one file in cpio format and install them using cpio. It's the "one file in...
Eli Carter
eli.carter@...
Dec 3, 2003 10:47 pm
23616
... Bingo, that appears to have done the trick for building rpm-4.0.3. Thanks. I'm trying to build rpm-3.0.6 on the same box, and i'm not having much luck...
Net Llama!
netllama@...
Dec 4, 2003 1:58 am
23617
... Hmmm, this is just a guess, but I suspect I'm right ... cpio archives have a trailer. strip the trailer off, concatenate the archives, put a trailer on the...