All, If my rpm has to check an environment variable, say, BARRY_DIR, then if $BARRY_DIR does not exist, can the rpm quit gracefully without installing ...
Baz
barry@...
May 3, 2004 3:32 am
24618
... If yoyur pre-install script exit with not-zero status installation of rpm will be aborted. But I am not sure it's gracefully. Valery ... ...
Valery Reznic
valery_reznic@...
May 3, 2004 9:06 am
24619
... Not really. You can die in %pre, and the files in your rpm will not be installed and your packages %post will not run, but the rest of the packages in the...
James Olin Oden
joden@...
May 3, 2004 1:52 pm
24620
We had been following Bug 116787 because it affects us as well. I'm sorry to see that it has been CLOSED. We need --with-msdfs compiled into samba. for...
Helen Nulty
hnulty@...
May 3, 2004 6:35 pm
24621
When I'm building an RPM with 'rpmbuild -ba <spec file>', if I mess up on the spec file (say I forgot to add a file to the %files directive), I have to...
Laughlin, Joseph V
Joseph.V.Laughlin@...
May 3, 2004 8:01 pm
24622
No way to avoid that... That is a "Working as designed" item... ... _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@... ...
Ryan Weaver
ryanw@...
May 3, 2004 8:22 pm
24623
... Actually, quite the opposite -- what would be inconvenient would be for a package to appear to build perfectly fine, but be missing files that you assumed...
Matthew Miller
mattdm@...
May 3, 2004 8:32 pm
24624
That's what I figured. Still kinda inconvient though. Joe Laughlin ... From: Ryan Weaver [mailto:ryanw@...] Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 1:23 PM To:...
Laughlin, Joseph V
Joseph.V.Laughlin@...
May 3, 2004 8:33 pm
24625
... If you're testing a new spec, and you have an error in %build or %install, you can use --short-circuit to skip %prep and/or %build to continue your...
Tim Mooney
mooney@...
May 3, 2004 8:34 pm
24626
... Ah, that would be helpful. Thanks for the tip. Joe ... _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@... ...
Laughlin, Joseph V
Joseph.V.Laughlin@...
May 3, 2004 8:37 pm
24627
Yes, but compiler cache (http://ccache.samba.org/) will take away most of the pain. ... -- Bart Whiteley <bwhiteley@...> Novell, Inc., the leading...
... Hash: SHA1 ... Please please read the errata reports. The security flaws have been backported w/out bringing new features (and breaks) with it. ... Red...
Jesse Keating
jkeating@...
May 4, 2004 3:21 am
24630
... To answer myself for the benefit of future strugglers, I found the answers to all my problems in Jeff Johnson's subsequent post on a different thread: ...
Paolo Campanella
paolo@...
May 4, 2004 9:36 am
24631
Hello. I wanted to let this mailing list know about the availability of an early public draft of the Carrier Grade Linux v3.0 Serviceability specification,...
Joel Krauska
jkrauska@...
May 5, 2004 8:30 pm
24632
... What's unfortunate is that rpmbuild -bs and -bb exist, as this allows buggy srpms to be built and shipped that don't correspond to the binary rpms. -- ...
Steve Beattie
steve@...
May 5, 2004 9:06 pm
24633
On Wednesday, 05 May 2004, at 14:06:21 (-0700), ... That's no more unfortunate than any of the other options ("--force --nodeps", anyone?) that can be...
Michael Jennings
mej@...
May 5, 2004 9:18 pm
24634
On Wednesday, 05 May 2004, at 15:13:00 (-0700), ... I don't recall excluding any particular entity from my previous statement. Michael -- Michael Jennings...
Michael Jennings
mej@...
May 5, 2004 10:15 pm
24635
On Wednesday, 05 May 2004, at 15:13:00 (-0700), ... No, you were saying that the tool shouldn't have those options *because* it's possible for that to happen....
Michael Jennings
mej@...
May 5, 2004 10:17 pm
24636
... Except that I've seen *Red Hat* ship srpms on multiple occasions that were broken in this way -- there was no way the supposed source rpm would build, and...
Steve Beattie
steve@...
May 5, 2004 10:24 pm
24637
Hi, I noticed with FC2t3 that when attempting a --root --aid install the location of the rpmdb in macros.solve is interpreted as being relative to the --root...
Leonard den Ottolander
leonard@...
May 6, 2004 9:29 am
24638
... If you wish to be pedantic, I argue that the -bs and -bb options don't need to exist because they make it easier for a package distributer to ship a broken...
Steve Beattie
steve@...
May 7, 2004 1:58 am
24639
Hi, Sorry to post pkgadd related questions here. Can I print the shell environments from one of the pkgadd scripts, for example request script? I would like to...
Baz
barry@...
May 7, 2004 9:32 am
24640
... I think this should be considered proper behaviour, because you can't rely on that the system being installed (in the root) is the same version than the...
Nils Philippsen
nphilipp@...
May 7, 2004 4:14 pm
24641
... I think this should be considered proper behaviour, because you can't rely on that the system being installed (in the root) is the same version than the...
Nils Philippsen
nphilipp@...
May 7, 2004 4:17 pm
24642
Hi Nils, ... Hm. This new behaviour means you will always have to install the rpmdb into the --root before you can do a --root --aid install. If the installing...
Leonard den Ottolander
leonard@...
May 7, 2004 4:41 pm
24643
Hello Nils, ... This also means that if you do a different version installation %_solve_pkgsdir is pointing to the wrong package directory. If you have to...
Leonard den Ottolander
leonard@...
May 7, 2004 5:07 pm
24644
On Thursday, 06 May 2004, at 18:57:56 (-0700), ... And I argue that what is "needless" for you may be very useful and important to others. It's entirely...
Michael Jennings
mej@...
May 7, 2004 9:35 pm
24645
... Hash: SHA1 ... I can second that -bs is extremely usefull. I use -bs to generate a source rpm from where I fiddle w/ rpms. I then submit this source rpm...
Jesse Keating
jkeating@...
May 8, 2004 4:23 pm
24646
... This seems to be much like saying it is unfortunate that rope exists, because it allows people to hang themselves... Nevermind the fact that it can be...
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