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[Michael Schwendt]

On 08 Dec 2003 09:09:31 -0600, Bret Hughes wrote:

> > > > rpmbuild: relocation error: rpmbuild: undefined symbol: freeSpecVec
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > >   here is my rpm list for redhat 8.0.  Note that the rpm was upgraded 
> > > > because of the hang problem that the standard 4.x rpm from redhat has 
> > > > under 8.0.  With 4.1.1, the problem does not occur.
> > > > 
> > > > [root at rh80 SPECS]# rpm -qa | grep rpm
> > > > 
> > > > rpmdb-redhat-8.0-0.20020910
> > > > rpm-python-4.1.1-1.8x
> > > > rpm2html-1.7-8
> > > > librpm404-devel-4.0.4-8x.27
> > > > redhat-rpm-config-8.0-1
> > > > rpm-4.1.1-1.8x
> > > > rpm404-python-4.0.4-8x.27
> > > > rpm-build-4.1-1.06
> > > 
> > > This should be rpm-build-4.1.1-1.8x, so it matches your version of RPM.
> > 
> >   
> >    Excellent!  DOH!  Yes, that was it.  I had never heard of rpmbuild 
> > before, it appears to be a neat tool.
> > 
> 
> Isn't this a symptom of a packaging error?  seems like there should be a
> dependency built into rpmbuild to match the rpm version.

The error is to assume that there's no such dependency:  ;)

  $ rpm -qR rpm-build | grep rpm
  rpm = 4.1.1
  rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1
  rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
  librpm-4.1.so  
  librpmbuild-4.1.so  
  librpmdb-4.1.so  
  librpmio-4.1.so  

Some users play too much with --nodeps/--force while installing or
upgrading packages.

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