Re: CLX: LIBC RPM install fails.

From: Jeff Johnson (jnobsc.vzzwqmvrj@relay.tunkki.fi)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2000 - 17:36:14 EET

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    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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