Re: Changing prototype for headerGetEntry() 4th argument?

2007-06-06 Thread Michael Jennings
if that time has come. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) --- If the cure for AIDS comes from something

Re: %clean replace ??

2007-06-09 Thread Michael Jennings
doing that. So in munin's spec file: %define __spec_clean_body \ %{?buildroot:%{__chown} -R u+rX %{buildroot} ; %{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}}\ %{nil} Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm

Re: 4.5 features: Automagically export package metadata

2007-06-11 Thread Michael Jennings
to install/upgrade a package, including all necessary dependencies of course. Wasn't even going there. :-) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm/ devtool.conf

2007-06-15 Thread Michael Jennings
the aliases. rpm-4_5 can be an alias for set N, rpm-5_0 an alias for set M. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org

Re: No Neon patch...

2007-06-29 Thread Michael Jennings
. Mandriva RPM's frequently require custom macros, not the least of which being %{make}. Few people actually strive to create portable spec files. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org

Re: No Neon patch...

2007-06-29 Thread Michael Jennings
entries? I'm more inclined to think in the opposite direction: add important features that ISV's can't live without so that they will pressure distributions to update to and support those features. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] n + 1, Inc

Re: RPM_CHECK_LIB vs older autotools

2007-07-17 Thread Michael Jennings
seconds) or how poorly you version them (enlightenment-0.16.999.35 is still e17). Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm/ configure.ac

2007-07-18 Thread Michael Jennings
.tar.gz files from each other is in the spec file (5.0-0.x). Anything else is wangyanking. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org

Re: testing RPM 5 in practice: Berkeley-DB to SQLite migration with --rebuilddb

2007-07-22 Thread Michael Jennings
. That is not the direction of rpm5.org, nor should it be. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) --- The world isn't run by weapons

Re: Current HEAD build problems ...

2007-07-23 Thread Michael Jennings
/src/rpm $ ls -l lua/ ... -rw-r--r-- 1 rse rse 17429 Jul 15 19:56 lauxlib.c -rw-r--r-- 1 rse rse 5768 Jul 15 19:56 lauxlib.h ... La la la Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm

Re: Getting a rpm-4.5 release together

2007-07-26 Thread Michael Jennings
something? You can tell by '_' and ',' separators that different people hacked at different times. Nasty script isn't it? I wasn't going to say anything, but...yeah. Scary. :-) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin

Re: rpm-4.5

2007-07-27 Thread Michael Jennings
hesitant since it's (in some respects) a one-way change, but with ample testing it would be doable. I'll just make sure I tar up my rpmdb tree and don't --rebuilddb unless I really mean it. :-) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server

Re: No Neon patch...

2007-07-27 Thread Michael Jennings
On Saturday, 30 June 2007, at 00:56:01 (-0500), Tim Mooney wrote: I would prefer that over the scenario I'm afraid we're heading for too. The question is, what shiny features will ISVs clamor for? Something to turn instroot tarballs/images into RPM's? Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a

Re: Should rpm call umask(2)?

2007-07-27 Thread Michael Jennings
AIX, was the default. It just seems to me that the permissions in the RPM should be honored exactly 100% as they're stored, even if that means world write permissions (such as in 1777 directories like /tmp). Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Eliminating Berekeley DB/Sqlite3 in favor of a flat file rpmdb

2007-07-27 Thread Michael Jennings
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Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm/ configure.ac

2007-07-27 Thread Michael Jennings
tarball names must match Just a couple examples... Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) --- All of these things

Re: Should we enforce src.rpm as arch independent ?

2007-08-21 Thread Michael Jennings
than we should the following ones: BuildRequires: %(cat /etc/rpm/builddeps/%{name}) Version: %{name} %pre -p /usr/bin/reboot Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org

Java RPMs

2007-10-05 Thread Michael Jennings
-linux-amd64.rpm for anyone who'd be willing to help diagnose the problem. I'm guessing Sun's using a version of RPM that the newer code no longer supports, but I don't know what exactly to put my finger on. Thanks! Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL

Re: Logging rpm install/erase operations

2007-10-06 Thread Michael Jennings
in rpm. Ideas? /var/log/rpm.log? Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) --- It pleases me that you care

Re: Mechanism to generate *only* pkg NEVR dependencies

2007-10-15 Thread Michael Jennings
and completely dynamic (i.e., no external maintenance required and done automatically at build time), I'd sure like to see it. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org

Re: Mechanism to generate *only* pkg NEVR dependencies

2007-10-15 Thread Michael Jennings
, nothing really Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) --- There are two ways to slide easily through life

Re: Mechanism to generate *only* pkg NEVR dependencies

2007-10-16 Thread Michael Jennings
, you most likely need 'foo' for this package. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) --- She'd still say, 'I

Re: rpmdb ^C handling regression

2007-10-23 Thread Michael Jennings
at least 1 message that alludes to the fact that something terminated abnormally, that RPM cleaned up for me, and that the version of RPM I'm using is smart enough to do that. But I'm probably in the minority. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux

Re: Arbitrary tag names in rpm headers

2007-11-28 Thread Michael Jennings
reasons: it lets people capitalize freely, and it prevents the conflict/confusion which will result when somebody like SuSE comes along and decides to change case for some reason or when Buildhost does not match BuildHost Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL

Re: Arbitrary tag names in rpm headers

2007-11-28 Thread Michael Jennings
representation, I tend to lean toward the former, which means case sensitive. I didn't previously understand that they were mutually exclusive due to the need to apply the digest algorithm. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster

Re: looking for a distro using rpm5 !

2007-12-17 Thread Michael Jennings
. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) --- The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war

Re: BuildRequires: vcheck(N)

2007-12-24 Thread Michael Jennings
-- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) --- A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm/rpmio/ rpmdav.c

2008-01-04 Thread Michael Jennings
*sigh*) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) --- I'm not talking about moving in, and I don't want to change

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm/ TODO

2008-01-05 Thread Michael Jennings
to be a 5.0.1 in the near future. I'll have more info (and time to reply to the previous messages) tomorrow or Monday. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org

Re: Comments on 5.0b4

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Jennings
parameters until that changes. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) --- That little Huggie bastard just

--parentdirs default in 5.0?

2008-01-09 Thread Michael Jennings
: (null) messages are cosmetically bad but functionally irrelevant. The errors at the bottom, however, indicate that parent directory dependencies seem to have somehow been re-activated. Weren't these turned off by default for 5.0, or am I confused? Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http

Re: --parentdirs default in 5.0?

2008-01-16 Thread Michael Jennings
-- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) --- He who hesitates, dies. -- Greg Lippman diff -Nur -x

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm-5_0: rpm/ CHANGES macros.in

2008-02-04 Thread Michael Jennings
regeneration broke because of this until I updated it to use #% to comment out patches instead of just #. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm/ CHANGES macros.in

2008-04-10 Thread Michael Jennings
? Shouldn't it be initdir? Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) --- It's been awhile since I've seen the way

Perl Requirement Munging...the RPM5 Way?

2008-04-21 Thread Michael Jennings
/rpm/find-requires.perl which contains only exec /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires and similarly fails. Even %__find_requires points to this non-existent script. So the question is, what's the right way to grep out bogus Perl module dependencies in RPM = 5.0? Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX

Re: [CVS] RPM: file/ autogen.sh rpm/ INSTALL autogen.sh devtool.conf xar/ ...

2008-05-25 Thread Michael Jennings
members? I'm *forced* to use rpm5.org tarballs because of our bleeding edge build software requirements. Furthermore, the current problem I'm facing (the failure of 64-bit builds due to db-4.6 refusing to build a shared library) may very well be due to brokenness in libtool 2.x. Michael -- Michael

Re: [CVS] RPM: file/ autogen.sh rpm/ INSTALL autogen.sh devtool.conf xar/ ...

2008-05-25 Thread Michael Jennings
to that list. :) I will try devtool standalone again; it failed last time I tried. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org

Re: Fwd: Adding production rpmrepo in rpm-5.1.3

2008-06-05 Thread Michael Jennings
are in the process of eliminating yum and would be quite pleased to eliminate createrepo as well. So I'll pitch in happily. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org

Re: rpm-5.1.2 query segfault on certain uninstalled names

2008-06-06 Thread Michael Jennings
-2.6.25.4-3.nsa1.x86_64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -q caos-kernel-devel package caos-kernel-devel is not installed Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org

Re: Problems with erase-before-install on RPM 5.2

2008-08-13 Thread Michael Jennings
and the smart package manager perform flawlessly on the very same package set. And yes, we tried the latest version of yum at the time (3.2.14 IIRC). It's why we abandoned yum and haven't looked back. Quality engineering it ain't. More like popsicle sticks and duct tape. Michael -- Michael Jennings

Re: strange RPMDB problem: messed up entries (regularily)

2008-08-18 Thread Michael Jennings
development access has ever been permitted me on x86_64 ... We'd be more than happy to provide full access to an x86_64 system if it would help. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org

Re: Eliminating internal zlib.

2008-08-18 Thread Michael Jennings
, and am fighting dueling -lz - -lrpmz if building --without-neon anyways. Ripping out internal zlib and backporting rpmio/gzdio.c is likely the best long term fix. Go for it. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Server/Cluster Admin

Re: Generalizing EVR comparison precedence, preliminaries

2009-01-06 Thread Michael Jennings
with E:V vs. V:D? What about V-R:D? or just :D? Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ m...@kainx.org Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) --- When I hear about people

Re: Limiting package Name: field to explicit character set

2009-01-06 Thread Michael Jennings
once folks realize you can only say bundle of functions in so many ways, and the lib* and *Kit namespaces fill to capacity). Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ m...@kainx.org Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org

Re: Fwd: Adding lua to -lrpmio to change how PCRE is attached.

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Jennings
the implicit linkage tried to pull in the system PCRE instead of the internal PCRE. Jeff's plan sounds like the correct solution for that as well. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ m...@kainx.org Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm/ CHANGES configure.ac

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Jennings
AC_ARG_WITH( [path-buildroot], AS_HELP_STRING([--with-path-buildroot=ARG], [build with RPM buildroot path (or macro)]), @@ . Please don't do this. A temporary directory, not something under $HOME, really is the correct default for this. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm-4_5: rpm/ CHANGES configure.ac rpm/rpmio/ Makefile.am r...

2009-03-18 Thread Michael Jennings
+ +withval=no This, too, could not possibly have been tested. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ m...@kainx.org Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) --- Can you

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm-4_5: rpm/ CHANGES configure.ac rpm/rpmio/ Makefile.am r...

2009-03-18 Thread Michael Jennings
'dmalloc' left there is what you're referring to, I've already fixed it, I dunno what you're getting at with This, too though.. I guess I should've said sufficiently tested. But testing the default case and nothing else really shouldn't meet anyone's definition of tested. Michael -- Michael

Re: A (very minor) RPM_CHECK_LIB() flaw

2009-04-07 Thread Michael Jennings
: unable to find usable Python embedding library Any hints? I can hardly see any difference between perl - python other than the extra with-arg-location : with-arg-location Could it be the '.' in python2.5? Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ m...@kainx.org Linux

Re: RPM 5.1.9 released

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Jennings
, binaries, and even man pages) being installed under --with-xz=internal, this release seems to build and work quite well. :) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ m...@kainx.org Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org

Re: Should Obsoletes: become persistent?

2009-05-06 Thread Michael Jennings
of action, should permanence be desired, would be to add Conflicts: old-name = %{version}-%{release} That way the other package can't be installed while the new one is. (other quite cogent arguments snipped but not ignored) :-) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ m

Re: Should Obsoletes: become persistent?

2009-05-07 Thread Michael Jennings
like Obsoletes: = V-R Us lazy schmucks love the zero-effort, already implemented, been there, done that, solutions. ;-) I was trying to save you work! :-) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ m...@kainx.org Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm

Re: Should Obsoletes: become persistent?

2009-05-07 Thread Michael Jennings
). JavaScript is a good language; I just fear cries of Bloat! from the legume gallery. I know you anticipate as well. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ m...@kainx.org Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm/scripts/ gendiff

2009-10-21 Thread Michael Jennings
not less bashism. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ m...@kainx.org Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) --- Only those whose lives are brief can imagine that love

Re: building question as to the DISPLAY variable

2010-11-04 Thread Michael Jennings
On Thursday, 04 November 2010, at 10:13:09 (-0400), R P Herrold wrote: What are the team's thoughts to suggest here? Fix the package that erroneously assumes that lack of $DISPLAY implies lack of Tk for build. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ m...@kainx.org

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm/ CHANGES rpm/macros/ macros.in

2011-03-30 Thread Michael Jennings
has no value, won't work. :-) The way it was before was preferable, IMHO. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ m...@kainx.org Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org