We're working on getting Connectiva's apt-rpm working on non-Linux
systems and are running into a problem. Whenever we use apt to install
a package using a fresh RPM database (rpm --initdb), we get errors
like so:
$ apt-get install TWWxpm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
TWWxpm
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/205kB of archives.
After unpacking 324kB of additional disk space will be used.
error: cannot open Basenames index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
Committing changes...
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:TWWxpm ########################################### [100%]
error: cannot open Dirnames index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Filemd5s index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
TWWxpm: (info) Linking /opt/TWWfsw/bin/cxpm to /opt/TWWfsw/xpm/bin/cxpm
TWWxpm: (info) Linking /opt/TWWfsw/bin/sxpm to /opt/TWWfsw/xpm/bin/sxpm
Done.
We usually provide a stub package that provides /bin/sh for our RPM
postinstall scripts:
$ rpm --initdb
$ ls -l /var/opt/TWWfsw/rpm40/lib/rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Jun 30 11:34 Packages
$ rpm -Uv TWWos-1.0-1.sparc.rpm
$ ls -l /var/opt/TWWfsw/rpm40/lib/rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Jul 5 10:29 Conflictname
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Jul 5 10:29 Group
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Jul 5 10:29 Installtid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Jul 5 10:29 Name
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Jul 5 10:29 Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Jul 5 10:29 Providename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Jul 5 10:29 Provideversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Jul 5 10:29 Requirename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Jul 5 10:29 Requireversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Jul 5 10:29 Sha1header
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Jul 5 10:29 Sigmd5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Jul 5 10:29 Triggername
Note the absence of the "Basenames", "Dirnames", and "Filemd5s" files,
presumably because our stub package contains _no_ files (it's sole
purpose is to Provides: /bin/sh). Is it possible to create all files
used by RPM at --initdb time or when our stub TWWos package is
installed? I found %ghost at
http://rpm-devel.colug.net/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-files-list-directives.html
but that doesn't really help because we don't want any files
associated with our TWWos stub package.
--
albert chin (china@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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