In regard to: Re: Building my first RPM, Blaxton said (at 5:17am on Mar 12,...:
Is there a directive or command in .spec file to make python understand these libraries already exist ?
There are other ways to do this; it shouldn't really go in the Python spec, since it's a property of the system, not a property of Python. I don't know if the easiest way will work with rpm 3.0.x, but it's easy so try it: You likely already have an /etc/rpm directory on your system, or perhaps it's somewhere else (/opt/etc/rpm or equivalent based on how rpm was built). In there, create a plain text file named "sysinfo" with the exact text of the dependencies that RPM detects as missing, one per line. Once you've done that, try the install again. If that doesn't work, it likely means that rpm 3.0.x didn't use the sysinfo files like rpm 4.x and later do. In that case, the best (and arguably the most elegant in any case) thing to do is to create a "virtual" package that has no actual %files, but has a bunch of Provides: libfoo.a(some symbol) Provides: libbar.a(something else) Then build the package, and install it. This package works like a bridge between the libraries (and other things, like /bin/sh) provided by the base OS and what RPM needs. You can either do one package with all the different OS components that RPM needs or you can split things up along the natural package boundaries that the OS packaging tools (is it still LPP?) provide. On my OpenIndiana (Solaris-derivative) workstation, I chose to split things on the OS packaging boundary, and I named each package with an "openindiana-" at the start of the name, so I have things like: openindiana-bzip2-1.0.6-5.11.0.151.1.8.x86_64 openindiana-cairo-1.10.2-5.11.0.151.1.9.x86_64 openindiana-cups-libs-1.4.2-5.11.0.151.1.8.x86_64 openindiana-curl-7.21.1-5.11.0.151.1.8.x86_64 openindiana-expat-2.1.0-5.11.0.151.1.8.x86_64 openindiana-filesystem-base-0.5.11-5.11.0.151.1.8.x86_64 openindiana-flac-1.2.1-5.11.0.151.1.8.x86_64 and so on installed. I do enough packaging with RPM that I wrote a script to query the OpenIndiana native packaging system (called IPS) and auto-generate a spec file with everything I need in it. Tim -- Tim Mooney Tim.Mooney@xxxxxxxx Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, Quentin Burdick Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
