Apologies if the answer to this is well known - I've just subscribed to this list. I'm trying to add the X develpment support package to my RH8 installation...
Julian Opificius
julian@...
Jan 2, 2004 2:04 am
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... You need to install devel packages that match the installed XFree86 packages. Rpm will not let you mix and match. You might want to look at something like...
Tom Diehl
tdiehl@...
Jan 2, 2004 2:19 am
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Thanks for the speedy reponse Tom, comments interspersed below ... On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 21:18:48 -0500 (EST) ... OK. I'll go research them. ... Sorry, I...
Julian Opificius
julian@...
Jan 2, 2004 2:34 am
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... I'm not Tom Diehl, but here's confirmation: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-287.html -Barry K. Nathan <barryn@...> ...
Barry K. Nathan
barryn@...
Jan 2, 2004 7:01 am
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... I also confirmed via private email since IMO this has nothing to do with rpm devel. .............Tom _______________________________________________ ...
Tom Diehl
tdiehl@...
Jan 2, 2004 7:06 am
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Cheers all, and sorry about bad use of list, didn't realize it was for rpm devel. j. ======== On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 02:05:27 -0500 (EST) ... ...
Julian Opificius
julian@...
Jan 2, 2004 7:47 am
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Any way to do an or function in a spec file? Quagga will build against either ucd-snmp or net-snmp, anyway to reflect that in a spec file? Regards, Ted ...
Ted Kaczmarek
tedkaz@...
Jan 2, 2004 11:24 pm
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... The "correct" solution is for both ucd-snmp and net-snmp to specify a "provides" of, say, "SNMP". Quagga can then require SNMP. If there is no common...
Perry Hutchison
phutchis@...
Jan 2, 2004 11:32 pm
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... Make it depend on something those packages have in common. Failing that, it's pretty common to set a variable at the top of the spec file which one sets...
Matthew Miller
mattdm@...
Jan 3, 2004 5:14 am
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Hi, when i try to install a package, i get messages like the following: error: cannot open Depends index using db3 - Function not implemented (38) rpmdb:...
Jorge Mario
marioequation@...
Jan 3, 2004 7:02 am
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Hi List, I am writing a simple spec file which installs some files. No build, or install steps are done. I have a "template" file system inside my...
Hugh Beaumont
hbeaumont@...
Jan 3, 2004 9:09 am
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To clarify, I currently have this in my spec file: %files /home/my_user/template_dir/etc/file1.conf /home/my_user/template_dir/usr/local/bin/some_file ...
Hugh Beaumont
hbeaumont@...
Jan 3, 2004 9:18 am
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* Hugh Beaumont <hbeaumont@...> [03/01/2004 0416EST]: [...] ... [...] It is 6am and I am delirious, but I can tell you this much: there is no ...
Keith R. John Warno
krjw@...
Jan 3, 2004 11:28 am
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... You'll probably have to do it in two steps: %install # cp -a would probably accomplish the same thing :-) tar -cC /home/my_user/template_dir . | tar -xC...
Paul Heinlein
heinlein@...
Jan 3, 2004 4:12 pm
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I recommend that you make a tarball of your files. This way you can generate a Source RPM so that you can reproduce the binary RPM regardless of that happens...
Bart Whiteley
bwhiteley@...
Jan 3, 2004 4:54 pm
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Hey guys, Just a quick questions. Can epochs be zero'ed off in a new version e.g: foo = 12:1.0-17 foo = 0:2.0-1 or are you stuck with it forever? Thanks in...
Michael Honeyfield
mhoneyfield@...
Jan 3, 2004 7:48 pm
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... Zero is before 12. So, stuck forever. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@... <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------>...
Matthew Miller
mattdm@...
Jan 3, 2004 7:57 pm
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... so with and increased version number the damage inflicted by epochs has to stay? Just making sure I understand. Mike -- It's perfectly fine to use the name...
Michael Honeyfield
mhoneyfield@...
Jan 3, 2004 8:11 pm
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... Yeah. Because otherwise, how would RPM know that epoch-less package X was supposed to be before or after the epoch'd ones? -- Matthew Miller...
Matthew Miller
mattdm@...
Jan 3, 2004 8:13 pm
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... A package with a missing Epoch is considered to have epoch=0, so actually no package is "epoch-less"... Mihai ...
Mihai Maties
mihai@...
Jan 3, 2004 8:18 pm
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... hrmm.. I thought it still worked on a version number basis too. Thats cool.. I just want to be sure I understand this :) So package foo = 12:1.0-10 will...
Michael Honeyfield
mhoneyfield@...
Jan 3, 2004 8:35 pm
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... Yeah. It's simple, really. Epoch is considered before version number -- version number is only looked at if epoch matches. -- Matthew Miller...
Matthew Miller
mattdm@...
Jan 3, 2004 8:37 pm
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... Cool.. Thank you for your help :) Mike -- It's perfectly fine to use the name of you pet or child as a password. How ever, for the sake of security, make...
Michael Honeyfield
mhoneyfield@...
Jan 3, 2004 8:56 pm
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lilianquan
lilq@...
Jan 4, 2004 2:52 am
23803
On http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list on the bottom there is a field below "To change your subscription (set options like digest and delivery...
Alexander Dalloz
alexander.dalloz@...
Jan 4, 2004 3:07 am
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... Some docs in /usr/share/doc/rpm-*/dependencies, and more at http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-tags.html#S3-RPM-INSIDE-SERIAL-TAG ("Serial" is just...
Ville Skyttä
ville.skytta@...
Jan 4, 2004 8:24 pm
23805
... ...or use/provide the "--with(out) foo" functionality, see /usr/share/doc/rpm-*/conditionalbuilds _______________________________________________ Rpm-list...
Ville Skyttä
ville.skytta@...
Jan 4, 2004 8:29 pm
23806
Hi everybody. I'm a newbie in RPMDeveloping. My boss told me that i had write many rpm for him. I wrote a .spec file for test,Its body is Summary: A test...
Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
m_pahlevanzadeh@...
Jan 6, 2004 11:24 am
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... Simple advise: Download a few dozen source packages and study their content. Play with options and see what happens. Hugo. -- All email sent to me is bound...
Hugo van der Kooij
hvdkooij@...
Jan 6, 2004 11:48 am
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Hi everybody. I have many files what they compiled. It means i have't their source. If i have 2 files what they have compiled,How make i their RPM. Please...