> -----Original Message----- > From: Kris Deugau > Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 8:52 AM > > Gary Funck wrote: > > Hmm, first I've heard that there might be probs. building rpm's as > > root. What are they? > > The biggest one is that the build/install part of building the package > will accidentally overwrite real system files. This is a Very Bad > Thing, and can *really* screw things up if you're building on the system > you're going to install on; you may end up overwriting something you > really didn't want to overwrite. >
I've since created and rpmadmin account and am building packages under that personna. As they say, works for me. > > Request for enhancement in existing MIMEdefang rpm spec file -- > > > > Currently, it states: > > > > Requires: perl-Digest-SHA1 perl-MIME-tools perl-IO-stringy > > perl-MailTools > > > > a more consistent capitalization standard would be: > > > > Requires: perl-Digest-SHA1 perl-MIME-Tools perl-IO-Stringy > > perl-MailTools > > This would be nice, but it would also be incorrect. <g> > > Those Perl modules are named as-is, for whatever reason it was, and > changing the capitalization will Break Things. I don't recall any > particular problems building any of those modules myself. Researching this further, it seems that my rpm building tool of choice, Ovid, chose a different capitalization convention than (perhaps) the tool used to create the RPM's that require the presence of the modules installed by the RPM. I modified the .spec file to supply the expected resource and rebuilt. No problema. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
