[Libvir] Compiling libvirt v0.3.2 on centos5

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Meng Kuan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here is what I did when I tried to upgrade the libvirt on my centos5 
> system to the latest version.
> 
>   sudo yum install python-devel xen-devel libxml2-devel readline-devel 
> gnutls-devel
>   wget ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-0.3.2-1.src.rpm
>   sudo rpmbuild --rebuild libvirt-0.3.2-1.src.rpm

It's best to avoid building RPMs as root.  Set up a non-root RPM 
buildroot instead.  If you have rpmdevtools package installed, then 
there should be a command "rpmdev-setuptree" which does this.  Otherwise 
read these instructions:
http://genetikayos.com/code/repos/rpm-tutorial/trunk/rpm-tutorial.html

> ...
> ...
> RPM build errors:
>     InstallSourcePackage: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID de95bc1f
>     user veillard does not exist - using root
>     user veillard does not exist - using root
>     Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/FAQ.html
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/Libxml2-Logo-90x34.gif
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/examples.xml
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/examples.xsl
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/html/book1.html
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/html/home.png
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/html/index.html
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/html/left.png
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/html/libvirt-bridge.html
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/html/libvirt-conf.html
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/html/libvirt-gnutls_1_0_compat.html
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/html/libvirt-lib.html
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/html/libvirt-libvirt.html
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/html/libvirt-util.html
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/html/libvirt-uuid.html
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/html/libvirt-virterror.html
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/html/right.png
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/html/up.png
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/info1.c
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/libvir.html
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/redhat.gif
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.3.2/html/suspend.c
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-python-0.3.2/TODO
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-python-0.3.2/examples/basic.py
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-python-0.3.2/examples/create.py
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-python-0.3.2/examples/error.py
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-python-0.3.2/examples/node.py
>    /usr/share/doc/libvirt-python-0.3.2/examples/uuid.py

I think your best bet is to take a look at where it is installing these 
files.  Find the RPM build root (usually /var/tmp/something) and do:
   find /var/tmp/something -type f

The compare that list of files with the one in the spec file.

> I tried to get around this by putting the following in the ~/.rpmmacros 
> file (according to this webpage http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/unpackaged/):
> 
>   _unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0
>   _missing_doc_files_terminate_build 0
> 
> However, that does not seem to help. Any ideas?
> 
> Should I just install the binary packages instead of building from source?

I must admit that I normally build from CVS, and on RHEL 5 that works 
just fine, so I can't see why it would work from Centos.

Rich.

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