On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Panu Matilainen wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Rob Maidment wrote:>>> >> I have built RPM 4.7.0 and installed it as per the instructions in the>> INSTALL file, culminating in a successful call to “make install”. My>> linux is “from scratch”, the kernel version is 2.6.27.4. >> >> Following the install of RPM there is no RPM database (the Packages file>> does not exist anywhere). If I execute “rpm --initdb” a folder called>> “${prefix}” (literally, but without the quotes) is created under root and>> I end up with the following files:>> >> >> >> /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm/Packages>> >> /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm/__db.000>> >> /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm/__db.001>> >> /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm/__db.002>> >> /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm/__db.003>> >> /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm/__db.004>> >> >> >> If I then try to install a package I get the following error: “ERROR:>> Cannot get shared lock on RPM Database.”>> >> >> >> Does anyone know why my database is in such a strange location, and why I>> cannot install any packages?>> This is obviously a bug that needs fixing, but giving an explicit > prefix such as --prefix=/usr to ./configure should work.
Actually more to the point, it's just localstatedir which ends up being wrong, so instead of --prefix just give it --localstatedir=/var or such to get a sensible location for the rpmdb.
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