I'm trying to build an RPM of the latest version of WINE on Fedora Core 4. If I simply untar the source, export CC=gcc32, ./configure, make, the configure...
Ian Pilcher
i.pilcher@...
Jul 1, 2005 7:29 pm
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... ^^^^ Macros in specfiles are expanded even if there's a # before the line. This isn't normally a problem, except in the case of multi-line macros -- like ...
Matthew Miller
mattdm@...
Jul 1, 2005 7:35 pm
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... It's counter-intuitive, but adding a # in front of a macro doesn't necessarily comment it out. Try completely deleting the %configure, or try making it #...
Tim Mooney
mooney@...
Jul 1, 2005 7:42 pm
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Hello, all - I have a specific question regarding GRUB. I'd like to know how, and when, GRUB is installed, and set up. I've plowed through some recent GRUB...
Dan Trainor
info@...
Jul 1, 2005 11:03 pm
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... This really is the wrong list for your question - this list is for use of rpm and rpmbuild, etc. Distribution specific questions should go to those lists...
Paul Nasrat
pnasrat@...
Jul 1, 2005 11:27 pm
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... Hey, Paul - I thought I had sent this to the appropriate list - if not, I'm sorry. I understand what this list is for, and if you take into consideration ...
Dan Trainor
info@...
Jul 1, 2005 11:32 pm
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... You're convinced correctly. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@... <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------>...
Matthew Miller
mattdm@...
Jul 1, 2005 11:38 pm
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... It is still better not to depend upon that! ... Symlinks are name translations. So when you ask for libdb.so it will be translated by name to...
Bob Proulx
bob@...
Jul 2, 2005 6:33 pm
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... This was also discussed just recently. Here is my post on it. http://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2005-June/msg00057.html Bob ...
Bob Proulx
bob@...
Jul 2, 2005 6:37 pm
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I have a client server product. The client is packaged as an rpm. The client, upon installation , needs to know the servers ip and port number to connect...
Sudeep_Das@...
Jul 5, 2005 7:15 am
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Please ignore the last mail. --resign does it. ... From: rpm-list-bounces@... [mailto:rpm-list-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Das, Sudeep Sent:...
Sudeep_Das@...
Jul 5, 2005 7:45 am
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... You can try rpmrebuild http://rpmrebuild.sourceforge.net/ Not exactly without recreate rpm, but sure withour recompile. Valery ...
Valery Reznic
valery_reznic@...
Jul 5, 2005 7:53 am
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... Thanks to both Matthew and Tim! -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher...
Ian Pilcher
i.pilcher@...
Jul 5, 2005 4:29 pm
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... Oh, that is not good. Installations of rpms are by design meant to be non-interactive. Better to gather that information in a post installation...
Bob Proulx
bob@...
Jul 5, 2005 9:28 pm
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... Hash: SHA1 ... This is actually a very complicated issue, the "spirit of RPM". First, you have to look at the "spirit of package management". You see, when...
Rodrigo Barbosa
rodrigob@...
Jul 7, 2005 3:39 pm
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I like the semantics of %config and %config(noreplace). However, I find that I'd often like to make small modifications to config files as part of...
Adam Welch
adam.welch@...
Jul 7, 2005 3:43 pm
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What we do here is to put the config as a seperate rpm. you can then produce a rpm for each localization setup. If you really want to get fancy, you can have...
Jason Pyeron
jpyeron@...
Jul 7, 2005 3:48 pm
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... One recommendation would be to source a file where all the localisations go, that file could be a %ghost %config(noreplace) and sourced by your main...
Paul Nasrat
pnasrat@...
Jul 7, 2005 3:51 pm
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Thanks for your input. This certainly could work, except that the configuration files that I package often cannot source a config file. Thus the need for a...
Thanks for your considered reply. If I fully understand it, your approach would write an .rpmnew on upgrade only if post-localization changes resulted in a...
Adam Welch
adam.welch@...
Jul 7, 2005 4:13 pm
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Thanks for your suggestion. However, I do need see how it could work unless the localizations could all be known in advance. The localizations that I perform...
Adam Welch
adam.welch@...
Jul 7, 2005 4:16 pm
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This is where we would build an rpm as part of post config. We have done some very complicated things, and the only problem we have ever encountered was...
Jason Pyeron
jpyeron@...
Jul 7, 2005 4:19 pm
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Ah, indeed. That would work, though it seems a blunt tool. Maybe I'd use %ghost's in the RPM that deploys the configuration, then have the localizing RPM...
Adam Welch
adam.welch@...
Jul 7, 2005 5:06 pm
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... What I would recommend is mostly similar but slightly different. You don't have to include the /etc/ config file in your rpm package. Manage it similarly...
Bob Proulx
bob@...
Jul 8, 2005 3:10 am
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Hi! During the past few days I've been learning to write my own specs and create RPM''s. I've mostly found what I needed to know around the web, but I've got...
... Thanks a lot Marco! (can't understand why I didnt spot that in the man page earlier :-S) Cheers and enjoy your weekend, -- Tarjei ...
Tarjei Knapstad
tarjei.knapstad@...
Jul 8, 2005 11:23 am
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Thanks very much. Along with others, your response confirms that cleverness is required as the capability I need is definitely not provided by RPM itself,...
Adam Welch
adam.welch@...
Jul 8, 2005 2:10 pm
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Hi all I build all my perl modules into RPMs. I'm installing an app that requires a new version of I18N::LangTags, but this module is already installed as part...
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