RE: RedHat 6.X build environment on pinstripe machine?

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Johnson [mailto:jbj@JBJ.ORG]
> 
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 12:57:45PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > Is it possible to set up a pinstripe machine so that I can 
> build software
> > for my RH 6.x based servers?  These machines won't get 
> upgraded to pinstripe
> > any time soon (especially not before it's non-beta), but 
> I'd like to have
> > pinstripe on my workstation.  Anybody know how to do this, 
> and/or have a TFM
> > link that I can look at?  Thanks,
> 
> You can do it by running rpm-3.0.[56] on pinstripe. You'll 
> need to convert
> to a db1 format database, and then install rpm-3.0.6. There's 
> one gotcha
> that I'm aware of, building rpm-3.0.6 on a pinstripe box, see bugzilla
> #16972 for needed patch and details. Installing rpm-3.0.6 
> built on a Red Hat
> 6.2 box works fine AFAIK (I've done it), the problem is an 
> incompatible
> change to the libio interface in glibc-2.1.93 that I've not backported
> to rpm-3.0.6.

Should I be able to do the database conversion following the instructions
that you sent out 8/26/2000 that cover 4 different RPM 3/4 interaction
scenarios?  I just tried to do that, but it doesn't seem to create the db v1
files, and just moves the db v3 files into another directory.  The only
error message that I get when running 'rpm --rebuilddb --dbapi 3
--rebuilddbapi 1' is that it cannot remove /var/lib/rpmrebuild.processnumber
(or some similar filename).  Is there an easy way to figure out what's going
wrong here?  I can capture verbose output, if that will help (let me know
how many v's to use).
On a similar note (now that I've thought about a better way to phrase my
original question), will the packages built on Pinstripe with RPM v3.0.6
work on my stock RH 6.x boxes?
	Greg