On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 James_Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I have the unfortunate task of building an RPM for some commericial > software (Netvault Backup software: www.bakbone.com). no problems -- rpm does not hold grudges; it is just a simple packaging system coerced into doing builds ;) > First I had to figure out it's hidden feature of using a response file.. > that worked fine.. Now on to problem #2.. paths. > > It seems parts of the binary installer and a large chunk of the install > scripts put things in /etc, /usr/lib, /usr/bin, and make some /dev > entries. Is it possible to make the installer run in a chrooted > environment so I can capture all of this? sure -- build a chroot capable of doing rpmbuild's and have at it. Sample script ( ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/local/ORC/ORCrebuild/ORCyum-chroot-caos ) referred to in the materials at: http://www.herrold.com/caos/ in: http://www.herrold.com/caos/frontporting/ > If so, how do I refer to all > the necessary files (rpm support files & dirs) that are outside of the > chroot? just move them in, and have at it within the chroot: your .spec file will determine whenand where to make any needed directories, and how to move and position files. > I don't want to have to do it that way because chroot requires > root, and we all know root rpm builds are bad. I'm just running out of > options here. ummm -- who says it requires being root? see the outline, http://www.herrold.com/caos/frontporting/ and code like: 10. Hand each SRPM in turn to an automated non-root, in pristine chroot builder see: ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/local/ORC/ORCrebuild/ORCbuildit for an example -- the section containing: # # now we build as non-root chroot $BUILDROOT/$TEMP sudo -u builder rpmbuild $NODEPS \ -ba /usr/src/$DIST/SPECS/$j \ >> $BUILDROOT/$TEMP/usr/src/$DIST/$NAME-build.txt \ 2>> $BUILDROOT/$TEMP/usr/src/$DIST/$NAME-error.txt || \ touch $BUILDROOT/$TEMP/usr/src/$DIST/$NAME-fail.txt is building inside the chroot as non-root ---------------------------- These are representative of the code doing the caos-1 and centos-3 builds, -- see the cAos project at http://www.caosity.org/ No kernel modifications needed, unlike some build approaches. Other approaches (Michael Jennings mezzanine, JBJ's pdr) also will happily build as non-root. -- Russ Herrold _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
