[rhn-users] Q about building RPMs

[Craig Aumann]

Thanks for your suggestions, but having mucked about with this some more
I am realizing I may have to break down and buy the damn book. 

- if I include the full list of files, it complains that the files are
being included twice.  

- rpm -qp --provides indicates that the package is providing the
libraries it is complaining about. 

I'll have a look at a few other RPM packages and see if I can figure it
out.

Cheers!
Craig



On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 15:12, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> Red Hat did put out a new RPM book about a year ago I think that is
> really good and has updated info, probably want to grab a copy if you're
> building/maintaining RPM's.
> 
> One thing you'll want
>  to make sure, is that you aren't listing Requires and BuildRequires
> that RPM figures out on it's own.  It will just make things more
> confusing later when things change (I'd mostly be concerned about the
> libraries as RPM does a good job of including those automatically in the
> dependencies).
> 
> If you are putting the libs in /usr/lib, you shouldn't need to run
> ldconfig, but you could just add /usr/local/... to the /etc/ld.so.conf
> and then run ldconfig and you wouldn't have to symlink things.
> 
> You'll probably want to list the files in the %files section, right now
> you don't really have much there at all.
> 
> Just some idea after a 30-second glance...
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 09:47 -0700, Craig Aumann wrote:
> > I'm trying to build an RPM from some code I download (the GRASS package
> > to be particular).  Everything builds fine etc., but when I do a test
> > install of the package I get the following errors:
> > 
> > [root at michelangelo i386]# rpm -ivh --test grass-6.0.0-1.i386.rpm
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >         libgrass_D.so is needed by grass-6.0.0-1.i386
> >         libgrass_I.so is needed by grass-6.0.0-1.i386
> >         libgrass_Iortho.so is needed by grass-6.0.0-1.i386
> > .....
> > 
> > 
> > Which I find odd, because those libraries are all contained in the rpm
> > file  itself:
> > 
> > root at michelangelo i386]# rpm -qpl grass-6.0.0-1.i386.rpm
> > .....
> > /usr/local/grass-6.0.0/lib
> > /usr/local/grass-6.0.0/lib/libgrass_D.6.0.0.so
> > /usr/local/grass-6.0.0/lib/libgrass_D.so
> > /usr/local/grass-6.0.0/lib/libgrass_I.6.0.0.so
> > /usr/local/grass-6.0.0/lib/libgrass_I.so
> > /usr/local/grass-6.0.0/lib/libgrass_Iortho.6.0.0.so
> > /usr/local/grass-6.0.0/lib/libgrass_Iortho.so
> > ...
> > 
> > So, what the hell have I done wrong?  I suspect something isn't set
> > right in the attached "spec" file, but I'll be damned if I can figure
> > out what. Are there any good references out there that people recommend
> > for RPM?  The one at http://www.redhat.com/docs/books/max-rpm/index.html
> > is 5 years old... 
> > 
> > Any thoughts are appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Craig
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