Mandrake SRPMs on Fedora Core 1
Aly Dharshi
aly.dharshi at telus.net
Tue Jun 1 05:47:08 UTC 2004
Hello,
My question to you would be why would you want to try building a
Mandrake rpm on FC1/2 ? Is there no corresponding SRPM from Fedora Core/
RedHat? I think that what you may want to do is to really take a
reference to a doc which explains building rpms and/or srpms.
Cheers,
Aly.
William M. Quarles wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If anyone has tried rebuilding a Mandrake SRPM on Fedora Core or Red Hat
> Linux, your probably got this:
>
> + %make
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.55192: line 53: fg: no job control
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.55192 (%build)RPM build
>
> errors:
> user florin does not exist - using root
> <SNIP>
> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.55192 (%build)
>
> Apparently the "fix" is that %build is not a macro defined for Red Hat
> RPM distributions, so we need to steal it from Mandrake rpms and use it.
> Now this would be perfectly simple if I could just extract the files
> from an RPM file of the RPM program for Mandrake, without having to
> install them (you will get a Segmentation Fault if you try). The only
> problem is that the only way that I could figure out how to get the
> files out was by using Alien to convert the RPM RPM to a tarball, and
> extract the tarball. Does anybody know of another way of doing this?
> I'm sure that rpm2cpio could be used, but that seemed pretty complicated
> for me to figure out on my own.
>
> Peace,
> William
>
>
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Aly Dharshi
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