Re: Requires/Provides issue with re-packaging a complex product (endeca)

2013-01-06 Thread Mykel Alvis
Just to clarify, this package is NOT for public consumption. The software is distributed via installer, to be run by humans. Since we're doing automation using puppet, an RPM of the code reduces the complexity of the installation substantially and generates a repeatably installable artifact into

Re: Requires/Provides issue with re-packaging a complex product (endeca)

2013-01-06 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Jan 6, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Mykel Alvis wrote: Just to clarify, this package is NOT for public consumption. The software is distributed via installer, to be run by humans. Since we're doing automation using puppet, an RPM of the code reduces the complexity of the installation

Re: Requires/Provides issue with re-packaging a complex product (endeca)

2013-01-06 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Jan 6, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Mykel Alvis wrote: I think it's OK to do this, but I'm going to do so directly to your personal email so that I don't display piles of potentially litigious data in a public forum. Please reply with readelf output publically: the output is not that large

Re: Requires/Provides issue with re-packaging a complex product (endeca)

2013-01-06 Thread Mykel Alvis
I certainly understand the frustration in that I experience it identically in other areas. From your other email, I read I'm looking for libraries with _MISSING_ SONAME's. The solution there is to add DT_SONAME with -Wl,soname,YOUR_SONAME It's been decades, literally, since I handled C

Re: Requires/Provides issue with re-packaging a complex product (endeca)

2013-01-05 Thread Mykel Alvis
Responses inline below: On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Jeffrey Johnson n3...@me.com wrote: Second, you're right, I'm using rpm 4.8 from RHEL. It's the only choice I have. OK. FYI: there's not enough difference to worry about between @rpm.org - @ rpm5.org. The goals are more

Re: Requires/Provides issue with re-packaging a complex product (endeca)

2013-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Jan 5, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Mykel Alvis wrote: devzero2000 over on the rpm-users list suggested %define _use_internal_dependency_generator 0 This did exactly what I needed. Yes but … there are profound changes to the *.rpm package format that are coupled to setting

Re: Requires/Provides issue with re-packaging a complex product (endeca)

2013-01-05 Thread devzero2000
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Mykel Alvis mal...@restorationhardware.com wrote: devzero2000 over on the rpm-users list suggested %define _use_internal_dependency_generator 0 My self, devzero2000 (Elia Pinto) is part of the rpm5 team, thanks to jeff. Since the request was for rpm 4.8 I

Re: Requires/Provides issue with re-packaging a complex product (endeca)

2013-01-05 Thread devzero2000
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Jeffrey Johnson n3...@me.com wrote: On Jan 5, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Mykel Alvis wrote: devzero2000 over on the rpm-users list suggested %define _use_internal_dependency_generator 0 This did exactly what I needed. Yes but … there are profound changes to the

Re: Requires/Provides

2012-04-04 Thread Anders F Björklund
Rick Miller wrote: But even with all the patching, the only yum use is for handling RPM packages for Linux on FreeBSD (like for the linux emulator). It has too many hardcoded assumptions to work for native packages. There is no real interest in having it portable to other systems. I left

Re: Requires/Provides

2012-04-04 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Apr 4, 2012, at 3:29 PM, Anders F Björklund wrote: A slight problem is that nobody is maintaining the python at rpm5.org. Yet. 73 de Jeff __ RPM Package Managerhttp://rpm5.org User

Re: Requires/Provides

2012-04-03 Thread Rick Miller
What are the Requires: needed? My mistake, they are BuildRequires: and are as follows: python gettext intltool What version of RPM? I *think* its 5.2.x, but not 100% sure. I don't have access to the host today and can let you know tomorrow. It was installed from the FreeBSD ports

Re: Requires/Provides

2012-04-03 Thread Anders F Björklund
Rick Miller wrote: What version of RPM? I *think* its 5.2.x, but not 100% sure. I don't have access to the host today and can let you know tomorrow. It was installed from the FreeBSD ports collection for 8.2-RELEASE. That would be 5.2.1.

Re: Requires/Provides

2012-04-03 Thread Rick Miller
Thanks for the info, Anders! I had wondered if anyone had done this already and was unable to locate the port using my google-foo. Thank you for the URLs. I guess we will evaluate how important yum would be for us in our environment and compare the benefits vs. the LOE to implement. On Tue,