[ILUG] cfdisk-glibc trouble FC3

[Darragh Bailey]

Quoting Frank Murphy <lists2005 at frankly3d.com>:

> Getting the follwwing:
>
> [root at frank-00 frank]# locate cfdisk-glibc
> /store00/downloads/linux/cfdisk-glibc-0.8g-1.src.rpm
> [root at frank-00 frank]# cd /store00/downloads/linux
> [root at frank-00 linux]# rpm -i cfdisk-glibc-0.8g-1.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>          libncurses.so.4 is needed by cfdisk-glibc-0.8g-1.i386
> [root at frank-00 linux]# locate libncurses.so
> /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5
> /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.4
> /usr/lib/libncurses.so
> [root at frank-00 linux]#
>
> I have a newer version of ncurses,
>
> Tried it with a src.rpm get:
>
> [root at frank-00 linux]# rpm -i cfdisk-glibc-0.8g-1.src.rpm
> error: source package contains no .spec file
> [root at frank-00 linux]#
>
> How can I get over this hurdle FC3

Just took a quick look at the rpm for you and it appears that is has a .specs
file instead of a .spec.

$ rpm2cpio cfdisk-glibc-0.8g-1.src.rpm | cpio -id

should give you the following files
cfdisk-0.8g.tar.gz
cfdisk-0.8g.specs
cfdisk-0.8g.diff


cp the tarball and diff file to the SOURCES directory that you use,

If you need to setup a build area as a user see the end of this mail for
details.

cp the cfdisk-0.8g.specs to the spec folder and rename to cfdisk-0.8g.spec

after that it should be just a case of rpmbuild -ba specs/cfdisk-0.8g.spec




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I recommend setting up a build area under a normal user and put a .rpmmacros
file in the home directory of the user, better security practice

Then exit the file and add in the following details

#
# Macros for using rpmbuild
#
%_topdir      path_to_build_dir e.g. /home/user/build_area
%_rpmtopdir   %{_topdir}
%_tmppath     %{_rpmtopdir}/tmp
%buildroot    %{_rpmtopdir}/root/
%_builddir    %{_rpmtopdir}/build/
%_sourcedir   %{_rpmtopdir}/src/
%_specdir     %{_rpmtopdir}/specs/
%_rpmdir      %{_rpmtopdir}/rpms
%_srcrpmdir   %{_rpmdir}/srpms
%packager     youremailaddress at somewhere.com
%vendor       Company Name
%distribution Fedora Core 3
%url          homepage
%_unpackaged_files_terminate_build  0
%_missing_doc_files_terminate_build  0


Then create the following directories, assuming you use /home/user/build_area

/home/user/build_area
/home/user/build_area/tmp
/home/user/build_area/root
/home/user/build_area/build
/home/user/build_area/src
/home/user/build_area/specs
/home/user/build_area/rpms/srpms


note you can accieve the same results by putting the .rpmmacros file under a
subdirectory outside of home provided when calling rpm or rpmbuild to work with
this build area you specify the HOME variable to use when searching for this
file.

i.e.

file at /home/user/rpms/.rpmmacros

$ HOME=/home/user/rpms/ rpmbuild -bb specs/cfdisk-0.8g.spec

This will pick up the .rpmmacros file and use the values specified by it.


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--
Darragh

"Nothing's foolproof to a sufficently talented fool"