On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 08:51:18AM +0000, Wilbert Knol wrote:
> Thanks for reading this message.
>
> In order to get CLX going, I am having to upgrade the LIBC 5.3 that
> came with Mandrake 6.0 (Kernel 2.2.9-19mdk)
>
> libc5-5_4_46-2.src.rpm was duly downloaded. When I run RPM
> from the KDE desktop, it quietly fails to install.
>
> >From the command line (with extended debug turned on) RPM
> 3.0.1 shows the following info:
>
> [root@zl2bsj src]# rpm -ivv libc5-5_4_46-2_src.rpm
> D: counting packages to install
> D: found 1 packages
> D: looking for packages to download
> D: retrieved 0 packages
> D: New Header signature
> D: Signature size: 236
> D: Signature pad : 4
> D: sigsize : 240
> D: Header + Archive: 1707413
> D: expected size : 1707413
> D: found 1 source and 0 binary packages
> D: New Header signature
> D: Signature size: 236
> D: Signature pad : 4
> D: sigsize : 240
> D: Header + Archive: 1707413
> D: expected size : 1707413
> D: installing a source package
> D: sources in: //usr/src/RPM/SOURCES
> D: spec file in: //usr/src/RPM/SPECS
> D: file: libc-5.4.46.tar.gz action: unknown
> D: file: libc5-5.4.38-wchar.patch action: unknown
> D: file: libc5-5.4.44-makeconfig.patch action: unknown
> D: file: libc5-5.4.46-config.patch action: unknown
> D: file: libc5-5.4.46-locale.patch action: unknown
> D: file: libc5-5.4.46.spec action: unknown
> libc5-5.4.46-2
> [root@zl2bsj src]#
>
> It extracts the sources, patches and .spec file to directories under
> RPM, but then doesn't seem to know what to do with it.
>
The next step is
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
rpm -ba libc5-5.4.46.spec
If the build works, the final step is
cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
rpm -U libc5-5.4.46*.i386.rpm
Alternatively (and easier) is to download and install the binary rpm.
> I spent a couple of nights going through the RPM man pages,
> consulted the Red Hat RPM howto, LINUX FAQ, libc readme's
> trying all sorts of things, but so far no joy....I have run out of ideas.
>
> The same thing happened trying to install Xforms. Any hints would
> be gratefully appreciated.
>
Ther's a binary rpm for xforms in Red Hat Power Tools. The source has
not been publicly released AFAIK.
73 de Jeff
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Jeff Johnson ARS N3NPQ
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