CLX: LIBC RPM install fails.

From: Wilbert Knol (dfgpps.ovuxat@telconet.net)
Date: Tue Jan 12 1300 - 08:51:18 HMT

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    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.

    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.

    Wilbert, ZL2BSJ



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