On 01/29/2013 04:04 PM, Thierry Parmentelat wrote:
Hi
I'm facing issues with rpm in a rather convoluted scenario, where a fedora14 physical box spins off virtual machines, and in the mix invokes rpm/yum to build guest images
Long story short, for guests under fedora 17 and 18, I run into this
ERROR You need to update rpm to handle:
rpmlib(X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir) is needed by filesystem-3.1-2.fc18.x86_64
rpmlib(X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir) is needed by setup-2.8.57-1.fc18.noarch
As far as I understand fedora has added this as a precaution for upgrades across the f16/f17 barrier and I really do not plan on doing any of this, so using an rpm binary/package that fakes this 'X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir' thing would be enough for my needs at first sight
Trying to work around that, I made an attempt to rebuild f18's rpm under f14; which was easy enough; at first sight it seemed to have the proper f18 patch so I was optimistic :)
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Unfortunately using this new rpm did not solve the issue, and when trying to check that the new rpm indeed had the required capability - or whatever the proper name is here, I mean 'X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir' - I realized that even with the native f18 rpm I was not able to spot that feature:
# rpm -qp rpm-4.10.2-1.fc18.x86_64.rpm --provides
warning: rpm-4.10.2-1.fc18.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID de7f38bd: NOKEY
config(rpm) = 4.10.2-1.fc18
rpm = 4.10.2-1.fc18
rpm(x86-64) = 4.10.2-1.fc18
mmh, my first thought had been this would show up in there, but obviously, it's not, even with the stock f18 rpm
so digging further I found references here and there to --showrc; I',m not sure that I captured that one, but here's what I get
root@mirror /mirror/fedora/updates/18/x86_64 # rpm -qp rpm-4.10.2-1.fc18.x86_64.rpm --showrc | grep rpmlib
Features supported by rpmlib:
rpmlib(BuiltinLuaScripts) = 4.2.2-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) = 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(ConcurrentAccess) = 4.1-1
rpmlib(ExplicitPackageProvide) = 4.0-1
rpmlib(FileCaps) = 4.6.1-1
rpmlib(FileDigests) = 4.6.0-1
rpmlib(HeaderLoadSortsTags) = 4.0.1-1
rpmlib(PartialHardlinkSets) = 4.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) = 4.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadIsBzip2) = 3.0.5-1
rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) = 4.4.2-1
rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) = 5.2-1
rpmlib(ScriptletInterpreterArgs) = 4.0.3-1
rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) = 3.0.3-1
which already looks better indeed; except that it does not mention X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir...
The query above doesn't do what you probably think it does:
rpmlib() dependencies are provided by the running rpm instance, and
cannot be provided by packages. So the "-qp
rpm-4.10.2-1.fc18.x86_64.rpm" part doesn't make sense there - it will
output the what "rpm -qp rpm-4.10.2-1.fc18.x86_64.rpm" would output, AND
then --showrc additionally outputs the rpmlib() provides of the running
rpm which in case of F14 is rpm-4.8.x IIRC.
You'd need to upgrade the host rpm to that of F18 (or F17) to have it
provide the X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir magic. And even there it actually
doesn't show up in --showrc because its, uh, rather special.
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I am quite obviously missing the point here
All I would like to achieve is to build an rpm that pretends to have the required feature - without any actual change, can anybody shed some light on how to do that ?
For your purposes it sounds like faking the thing should indeed be
sufficient. Something like this should do the trick:
--- a/lib/rpmds.c
+++ b/lib/rpmds.c
@@ -962,6 +962,9 @@ static const struct rpmlibProvides_s
rpmlibProvides[] = {
( RPMSENSE_EQUAL),
N_("support for POSIX.1e file capabilities") },
#endif
+ { "rpmlib(X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir)", "1",
+ ( RPMSENSE_EQUAL),
+ N_("fake X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir provide") },
{ NULL, NULL, 0, NULL }
};
...but note that this needs to be applied to the host rpm building the
vm images. Ie apply the above to F14 src.rpm, rebuild and install on the
F14 host.
- Panu -
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