Re: Please help ! rpm doesn't recognize that apache installed

["Desmond Lee" <desmond60 hotmail com>]

Hi everyone

My last email didn't include all the error messages, so i'll elaborate a 
littel more here


> Once you have installed the source rpm, you can cd to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> and execute rpm -ba apache.spec, and it should build.  The binary RPM's 
> will
> be found in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 (if i386 is your arch).  This is the
> same as building apache from source, but you end up with rpm's to install 
> and
> take care of dependencies for you.

When i do 'rpm -ba apache.spec' i get:

error: Unable to open /usr/lib/rpm/macros.perl: No such file or directory
error: Name field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Version field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Release field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Summary field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Group field must be present in package: (main package)
error: License field must be present in package: (main package)

THus, i'm pretty much stumped here. Isn't there any way that i can get rpm 
to regocnize that apache is installed without having to reinstall apache via 
the rpm's?


My motives are really just to install some modules (ie apacheconf, mod_per, 
etc) but they all complain that apache or a webserver is not installe (but 
it really is, rpm just doesn't know abou it). I don't wanna install the 
modules w/o the no deps becasue things might not work latter.


>From the dependency failures above it sounds like you got a RawHide or 
other
> contributed RPM that wasn't built on the same distribution as you box.


I retried it again and made sure this time they were meant for redhat 7.3. 
Still no luck.

thanks guys

Desmond

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