<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <tt>I found the 5.0 version of rpm at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/dries.studentenweb.org/apt/fedora.risky/fc7/x86_64/RPMS.dries/rpm-5.0-0.2.0.fc7.rf.x86_64.rpm">ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/dries.studentenweb.org/apt/fedora.risky/fc7/x86_64/RPMS.dries/rpm-5.0-0.2.0.fc7.rf.x86_64.rpm</a> Yeah.. says fedora.risky, so it is not official. But I have to try and fix the problem I am having: Using my existing fedora provided packages, I tried to rpmbuild -bb ntfs-3g.spec (for ntfs-3g-1.5130). It always dies with memory fault after this: + /usr/lib/rpm/atrpms/python_burninversion.sh + /usr/lib/rpm/atrpms/brp-compress + /usr/lib/rpm/atrpms/brp-strip /usr/bin/strip + /usr/lib/rpm/atrpms/brp-strip-static-archive /usr/bin/strip + /usr/lib/rpm/atrpms/brp-strip-comment-note /usr/bin/strip /usr/bin/objdump Processing files: ntfs-3g-1.5130-1.f7 Executing(%doc): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.10146 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD + cd ntfs-3g-1.5130 + DOCDIR=/var/tmp/ntfs-3g-1.5130-1.f7-root-root/usr/share/doc/ntfs-3g-1.5130 + export DOCDIR + rm -rf /var/tmp/ntfs-3g-1.5130-1.f7-root-root/usr/share/doc/ntfs-3g-1.5130 + /bin/mkdir -p /var/tmp/ntfs-3g-1.5130-1.f7-root-root/usr/share/doc/ntfs-3g-1.5130 + cp -pr AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING CREDITS NEWS README /var/tmp/ntfs-3g-1.5130-1.f7-root-root/usr/share/doc/ntfs-3g-1.5130 + exit 0 /bin/sh: 17396: Memory fault I posed the problem to the ntfs-3g users list, and they say the problem is with my version of rpm, and not with the spec file, nor with the resulting Makefiles. </tt><tt>So, that is why I thought I should try to update to rpm 5.0</tt> <tt> By the way, even if I try to update via yum, and provide the binary rpms of the rpm packages directly as args to yum, yum fails because of dependency issues. -JD </tt><tt> </tt>Kevin Fenzi wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20090119195729.6c98eabb@ohm.scrye.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:41:20 -0800 JD <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jd1008@gmail.com"><jd1008@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Dear list, My current system has rpm-4.4.2.2-2 rpm-libs-4.4.2.2-2 rpm-python-4.4.2.2-2 I want to update to rpm-perl-5.0-0.2.0 rpm-libs-5.0-0.2.0 rpm-build-5.0-0.2.0 rpm-5.0-0.2.0 rpm-python-5.0-0.2.0 The 5.0 builds are made for my version of fedora. How can I update to the new 5.0 stuff safely, so that I am not left without an rpm tool. The dependencies are so many, I am not sure how I can update and not break the dependents. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Where are you seeing these rpms? They are not provided by Fedora. If it's rpm5, why not ask their support forums for help: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rpm5.org/community.php">http://rpm5.org/community.php</a> Or better yet, just stick with the Fedora provided packages. kevin </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>