On Friday 29 September 2006 03:35, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > If I'm not mistaken, Kern meant BINARIES, not source RPM's.
Yes, thanks. I did mean the binary rpms. Building rpms from a source rpm is as demanding (or more) than trying to build from source. > Is there a > reason you aren't using the already-created RPM packages (ie. no > installation headaches). > > Richard White wrote: > >>>> On 9/26/2006 at 11:22 PM, in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wednesday 27 September 2006 01:41, Richard White wrote: > >>> As part of my exercise to get Bacula 1.38 running with full GUI > > toys, I have > >> installed SLES 10 on a computer, downloaded and installed the latest > > MysQL, > >> downloaded Bacula 1.38.11 with the bacula-gui-bimagemgr, then > > downloaded and > >> extracted the following: > >> > >> If you are using SuSE, I don't understand why you are not using rpms > > -- all > >> the hard work of configuring is done for you. I am running SuSE 10.1 > > with > >> no > >> problems. > >> > >> Note, as I believe it is documented in the manual, you are going to > > need a > >> few > >> development libraries. > > > > Thanks for the quick reply. Of course, RPMs would be best. Now I have > > embarked upon an exciting search for them. I found the section on RPM > > package building toward the back of the manual and probed around a bit. > > Soon I found /root/bacula-1.38.11/platforms/suse/bacula.spec.in. There > > is a section in it describing BuildRequires for each OS version. I note > > some discrepancies between versions for some of the items and the > > versions demanded when I tried to make gtk. Also, examining my installed > > packages with YaST, I find that most of them are there, at least the > > versions listed in bacula.spec.in, but not necessarily what the gtk make > > required. Maybe my problem is that I already have gtk2-devel v. 2.8 > > installed, but had tried to make v. 2.6. > > > > Comparing bacula.spec.in to YaST, the only thing I am missing is > > bonobo-activation-devel. > > > > When I tried running rpmbuild I got an error of this sort: > > > > error: File /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.tar.gz: No such > > file or directory > > > > I tried copying bacula-1.38.11.tar.gz there, but the error persists. > > People on this list have been very good about helping me get Bacula > > going the first time around and I don't want to impose on your patience, > > so I will consult the Internet for information regarding building my own > > RPMs. YaST will certainly be happier that way. > > > > Richard > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > -- > ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ > |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III > |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) > \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
