> From: Fernando Herrero Peletero <alpha...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [suggest] Re: [sugess] cacti-0.8.7g with patchs and
> My "diff" file was created using the following method: > 1. Seven official patches applied to the original source > 2. I applied the diff file of the PIA 2.9 > 3. I added to cacti.sql the code of pa.sql > 4. I ran diff the results obtained with respect to the original source. Ow-ow-ow-ow. You *did* squash them all together into one patch. This is actually a source of some screaming over in the CentOS mailing lists, because RedHat has taken to doing this for kernels. Red Hat is doing it on purpose to make modifications more awkward for Oracle, who've been joyriding on Red Hat's kernels and not, as near as I can tell, publishing their changes. It drives developers and updaters nuts becuase they can't segregate and update individual patches, nor can they easily revert particular patches when they get incorporated upstream, but with slightly different syntax. That just breaks the whole patch bundle, and makes it *much* harder to revert that one patch. And reversion of single patches happens *all the time* as particular segments get rewritten and patches need significant rewrite. I urge you to keep the original structure of the .spec file and add the diff files distinctly, and add the 'code of pa.sql' distinctly to keep the patches segregated from each other. > Why did this instead of applying the patches from the spec? > 1. Pa.sql file was not created. So create it. > 2. If the package included the IPA, why have the pa.sql? It was more > logical join the cacti.sql and pa.sql. > 3. # rpmbuild --rebuild cacti-0.8.7g-3.rf.src.rpm > Instalando cacti-0.8.7g-3.rf.src.rpm > advertencia:usuario dag no existe - utilizando root > advertencia:grupo dag no existe - utilizando root > error: falló el desempaquetado de archivos en > archivo/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/cacti-0.8.7g.tar.gz;4d937a4e: cpio: El > MD5 sum no coincide > error: cacti-0.8.7g-3.rf.src.rpm no puede ser instalado That src.rpm was built on an RHEL 6 or CentOS 6.x box, and has the more modern MD5 algorithm. Use 'rpm -U --nomd5 cacti-0.8.7g-3.rf.src.rpm' to extract the contents of that SRPM, and use that command in the future to do backporting work from Fedora or RHEL 6 to RHEL 5. And your work is appreciated! It just can take a bit of practice to learn some of the coding practices that will help you, and other packagers, avoid some problems in the future. _______________________________________________ suggest mailing list suggest@lists.rpmforge.net http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/suggest
