On 28-11-2011 15:03:56 -0500, Eric G wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm currently trying to use the OpenSUSE build service > (http://build.openeuse.org), to build packages RPMs for for CentOS and > RedHat distributions, and i think I've found a bug in a Makefile for > MonetDB. > > Essentially it looks like the explicit path > /etc/tmpfiles.d/monetdbd.conf is used in the Makefile located here: > MonetDB-11.5.9/buildtools/conf/Makefile.in
It's sysconfdir/tmpfiles.d (aparently necessary for systemd) > ...and the RPM build process doesn't like that. OpenSUSE essentially > implicitly enables the "norootdir" option in the spec file (regardless > of if it's actually present or not) because RPMs are built is special > purpose-built VMs that are provisioned when a "job" to build an RPM is > submitted, and the build process doesn't run as root. > > See here and here for more discussion on this problem (it's a common > problem apparently): > > http://wiki.sipfoundry.org/display/sipXecs/Building+RPM+tips > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Tips_and_Tricks#Permission_denied_errors > > I think the "fix" is as simple as inserting "$(prefix)" into the line > in Makefile.in, so that the build path is used to create the temporary > folder instead of attempting to writing to the system-wide /etc folder > (the build fails on the Makefile's install phase with permission > denied errors because of this static path). I think the problem here is that $(prefix) (or ${prefix}) is /usr, and etc doesn't belong under /usr, so you could try --sysconfdir='${prefix}/../etc' to make SuSE happy. > Am I on to something here? If I'm right, can the Makefile.in file be > patched please, adding $(prefix)? See above why this doesn't make sense.
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