build

[Wade Maxfield]

  Well, in this case, rpm did not require rpmbuild to be upgraded before I 
upgraded it to 4.1.1.   It did require popt, and one other.  :)

  I don't do --nodeps unless I'm installing a package that really isn't 
tied into what it is requiring. This is usually due installing an rpm that 
requires an older /lib/libblah.so.0 and only /lib/libblah.so.2 is 
available. 

  I then make the softlink for .so.0, install with --nodeps and then see 
if it runs.  If it doesn't, then the package is removed.

:)


On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 19:00:09 +0100
> From: Michael Schwendt <ms-nospam-0306 at arcor.de>
> Reply-To: fedora-legacy-list at redhat.com
> To: fedora-legacy-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: build
> 
> 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.
> 
>