rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/14/2008 03:03:50 PM:
>
> Hallo. I've been basing my head on this for over a week now (up until
the
> last 2 days I kept finding possible fixes) and IBM hasnt been all that
> helpful for typical support reasons (why do they care if I can make an
RPM?
> they provide 2 installers and a manual process! isnt that enough? /end
> sarcasm). Anyways.. let me provide a bit more information.
>
> I was going to try building the rpm in the same manner that we do some
> other 3rd party software distributions, which is basically to run the
> installer scripts in the %install portion of the script, gather up the
> files and move on. This didn't get me where I needed to be, and about
that
> time IBM released a new draft of their "DB2 Up and Running on Linux"
which
> provided very basic information about a new installation method as of
> version 9 of DB2, payload files (tarballs). Basically the procedure is
to
> pick the payload files you need, extract them all into a specific
> directory, and then run this 1 command and viola, you have a working
> install to begin setting up. Sounded simple enough, and doing it
manually
> works great. So I implemented this in the spec file, extracting all the
> files and such in %install and then running the command in the %post
> section (this way any locally specific voodoo can happen). The
> installation all looks great, but when I try to execute one of the
commands
> that is part of the standard configuration setup (specifically I'm trying
> to run`$IBMDIR/instance/dascrt -u dasusr1`) it fails.
>
> So far I've verified all the files permissions and ownerships, everything
> matches. I also have SELinux disabled. As far as I can tell they are
> identical, except the RPM install won't let me run the commands, but the
> manual one will. I have also tried setting the RPM to not run the 1
> command so that I do it manually after the files have just been placed on
> the system (which should remove and enviromental idfferences cause now it
> also gets run directly as root) and it still doesnt work.
>
> My biggest problem is that I just don't know where to go from here, any
> insight would be great.
>
> thanks
>
> -greg swift
So after 3+ weeks of bashing my head on this RPM issue I narrowed it down
to the fact that RPM strips the symbols out of objects during the build
process. the `%define debug_package %{nil}` did not prevent this as most
of what I read stated it would, and so I found an old post[1] from 2002 on
this list telling how Xfree86 prevented the issue. They used `%define
__spec_install_port /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress` so now all is better as far
as I can tell. Anyone in the same boat can reference the details of my
journey on IBM's developerWorks forum[2].
Have fun.
[1]
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.redhat.rpm/browse_thread/thread/61c9347083daaddc/828abf68dd0bf6b2?hl=en&lnk=st&q=disable+brp-strip#828abf68dd0bf6b2
[2]http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=205801&tstart=0
-greg
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