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On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
SvdE>I'm experiencing a number of issues / weirdness with rpm packages
SvdE>lately.
You aren't alone. :(
SvdE>1) The new mandrake packages I mirroring from sunsite.uio.no are
SvdE>weird. I'm not using the word corrupt, because they might not be.
SvdE>
SvdE>The buildoutputs (of a rpm --rebuild) all carry the same message:
SvdE>
SvdE>===
SvdE>source package expected, binary found
That's short explanation what's really happening with those broken srpms.
SvdE>rpm -i CodeCommander-0.6.11-1mdk.src.rpm
SvdE>failed to open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm: Permission denied
SvdE>
SvdE>error: cannot open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
All cooker srpms are broken this way (at least for last week as I've noticed).
SvdE>So... I'm wondering what is going on. Are these packages not
SvdE>backwards compatible? (Even my system with the latest rpm-* packages
SvdE>installed can't handle them).
That's not problem of your rpm, since all those srpms have been built as binary
rpms somehow. Note that usual build with rpm-3.0.[45] produces normal srpms.
SvdE>4) libtools like problem. Maybe this one is related to the make-install
SvdE>one.
SvdE>
SvdE>This is what happens:
SvdE>
SvdE>===
SvdE>Remember to add `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' to `configure.in'.
SvdE>Using `AC_PROG_RANLIB' is rendered obsolete by `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL'
SvdE>You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to
SvdE>`aclocal.m4'.
SvdE>+ ./configure i686-mandrake-linux --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr
SvdE>--bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/usr/etc
SvdE>--datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib
SvdE>--libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/usr/var
SvdE>--sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/man --infodir=/usr/info
SvdE>--exec_prefix=/
SvdE>configure: error: --bindir=/usr/bin: invalid option; use --help to show
SvdE>usage
SvdE>Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.55393 (%build)
That's back side of new advanced %configure macros - not all scripts are
compatible.
Regards,
Dmitry
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