... I fail to see how this is "dragging something along". I mean, any more than other RPM fields. After all, the epoch is just another component of the version...
Toralf Lund
toralf@...
Apr 1, 2005 9:41 am
26010
... Just as Alain said, rpm does not allow -'s in versions. What I would do in this case, well have done, is use an _ in place of the - so your version...
James Olin Oden
james.oden@...
Apr 1, 2005 10:41 am
26011
... However to prevent having to bump epoch when 0.9.6 becomes final the original poster might want to encapsulate the pre in the release ala: ...
Paul Nasrat
pnasrat@...
Apr 1, 2005 12:02 pm
26012
... Maximum RPM predates epoch. The snapshot is a work in progress, most of the serial to epoch changes were just in place rather than a complete rewrite -...
Paul Nasrat
pnasrat@...
Apr 1, 2005 2:07 pm
26013
Alain - mercie pour votre aide. Thanks truly to all for answering my question expeditiously and staying to point. It saved me a few more grey hairs this...
Brian Auld
Brian.Auld@...
Apr 1, 2005 4:00 pm
26014
... Thanks. Hmm. I tried again with the same result. I straced the command -- and there isn't even an attempt to open the gpg binary, as far as I can see (I'm...
Breen Mullins
bmullins@...
Apr 1, 2005 5:12 pm
26015
... The man page may indeed be in error. I'm just taking a stab at this here, but on my box running Fedora Core 3: $ rpm --version RPM version 4.3.2 $ rpm...
... together ... My (ab)normal way of dealing with these has been to put the pre (or beta or alpha or ...) information in the release field. Some versions of...
Rik Schneider
riks@...
Apr 1, 2005 7:46 pm
26018
Hi, I've created a large rpm package (1G) and in the %pre I'm creating a file system where the file will be installed, but when installing the rpm, i get a...
oded maimon
oded.maimon@...
Apr 3, 2005 12:25 pm
26019
... Not that I know. Sorry...james ... _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@... ...
James Olin Oden
james.oden@...
Apr 4, 2005 12:43 pm
26020
I am unable to update the popt and rpm* packages under "2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP x86_64". I am receiving the following message from up2date. There was a...
Shane Dawalt
shane.dawalt@...
Apr 4, 2005 2:17 pm
26021
... This looks like rpm-libs.i386, what type of install did you do? rpm --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n' -q rpm-libs elfutils-libelf ... Possibly...
Paul Nasrat
pnasrat@...
Apr 4, 2005 2:23 pm
26022
... depends on what you mean -- see: http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ -- Russ Herrold _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing...
R P Herrold
herrold@...
Apr 4, 2005 3:38 pm
26023
Under Fedora Core 2 my RPM database has become corrupted during an rpm install (db4/db3 panics, etc.). Is there any way to rebuild a database for an existing...
Browder, Tom
Tom.Browder@...
Apr 4, 2005 3:43 pm
26024
... See: http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ That should get you headed down the right road. Cheers...james _______________________________________________...
James Olin Oden
james.oden@...
Apr 4, 2005 3:53 pm
26025
... # rpm --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n' -q rpm-libs elfutils-libelf package rpm-libs is not installed elfutils-libelf-0.94-1.x86_64 I did a...
Shane Dawalt
shane.dawalt@...
Apr 4, 2005 4:44 pm
26026
... That did it! Many thanks to Russ Herrold and James Oden. Tom Browder _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list ...
Browder, Tom
Tom.Browder@...
Apr 4, 2005 6:12 pm
26027
... OK it looks as if up2date is trying to install rpm-libs.i386, can you do the same rpm query with just rpm rather than rpmlibs ... The multilib -libs biarch...
Paul Nasrat
pnasrat@...
Apr 5, 2005 6:41 am
26028
Hi all, i'm marco from florence, italy. We have recently purchased from DELL the server Poweredge 3250 (2 processor itanium 2 - 64 bit - 4GB RAM). In this...
Marco Buonarroti
m.buonarroti@...
Apr 5, 2005 10:00 am
26029
One of the irritants in building cross-platform pkgs is that sometimes variants in rpm defaults (across distros) breaks stuff at build time. This kind of thing...
Wichmann, Mats D
mats.d.wichmann@...
Apr 5, 2005 1:53 pm
26030
... # rpm --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n' -q rpm rpm-4.2.1-4.2.x86_64 ... No, didn't try support; I figured I was doing something stupid. (Never...
Shane Dawalt
shane.dawalt@...
Apr 5, 2005 2:13 pm
26031
pardon if this is naive, but could the rpm macro file be added in the src dir, listed as a src, then 'directly' included? I have not tested this, it is just a...
Jason Pyeron
jpyeron@...
Apr 5, 2005 2:56 pm
26032
... I thought once you were inside the specfile processing instructions it was "too late" to add something like this? ...
Wichmann, Mats D
mats.d.wichmann@...
Apr 5, 2005 4:43 pm
26033
... Many packages change the macros for post processing (stripping binaries, compressing manpages) inside the spec file. Now, this is common with RH-based...
Sean Dilda
agrajag@...
Apr 5, 2005 5:08 pm
26034
... Could this be fixed by adding support for an RPMMACROS environment variable, which the Makefile could set to be a file which is provided by the CVS sources...
Theodore Ts'o
tytso@...
Apr 5, 2005 6:16 pm
26035
... This one is just rpm being more strict now that it was before - the fix is just to avoid unpackaged files (which will work everywhere and is the correct...
Nicolas Mailhot
Nicolas.Mailhot@...
Apr 5, 2005 7:14 pm
26036
... Interesting idea... ... they were just that, examples - I agree there are other ways on these. _______________________________________________ Rpm-list...
Wichmann, Mats D
mats.d.wichmann@...
Apr 5, 2005 7:29 pm
26037
I have been having lots of problems with rpm on some CentOS-3 boxes. The first sign of problems was when an rpm locked up rpm when it was installed. An strace...
John Newbigin
jnewbigin@...
Apr 7, 2005 4:01 am
26038
Hi, Would anyone be able to tell me the difference between the usage of ppc64pseries and ppc64? On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, when creating an RPM, it uses ...