Re: Building RPM 3.x RPMs

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 04:20:32PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Monday 02 July 2001 03:29 pm, you wrote:
> >
> > You do this if running rpm-4.0.2 on a Red Hat 6.2 box; otherwise
> > dependencies from a Red Hat 7.x box will prevent packaging. Since you need
> > to build on a 6.2 box anyways, you might just think about building with
> > rpm-3.0.5 rather than using rpm-4.0.2, that's pretty easy to do. However,
> > since you've asked, here's the hacks necessary to achieve backward
> > compatible packaging from rpm-4.0.2:
> >
> Ahh... Ok. I'm already on a RH 7.1 box. I'll just tell the developer "sorry, 
> can't do this w/o building another box," something I'm NOT willing to do.. :-)
> Thanks...

You're not entirely out of luck, but you will need to build in a chroot.

See the scripts/trpm script in rpm for some of the command line details for
how to set up a chroot, or poke me privately. 'Tain't hard.

73 de Jeff

-- 
Jeff Johnson	ARS N3NPQ
jbj@jbj.org	(jbj@redhat.com)
Chapel Hill, NC