Re: rpm-4.0.4 released

[Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip sympatico ca>]

Dixit Guy Waugh <guywaugh at hotmail dot com> (2002-04-29 22:44):
> 
> sarrazip at sympatico dot ca (Pierre Sarrazin)
> wrote in message news:<20020427220001.A13095@localhost>...
> > Dixit Dr. Doug L. Hoffman <hoffman at dlhoffman dot com> (2002-03-15 22:37):
> > >
> > > Are the rpms for rpm-4.0.4-6x on ftp.rpm.org hosed? They seem way
> > > too small to be correct.
> > 
> > Those RPMs (in ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x/) are still
> > too small as of April 27th.  Any news about that?
	[...]
> That's exactly where I'm at, Pierre... rpm segfaults at this very
> package (kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.14-5.0. I had just upgraded to the new
> kernel before this started happening. If you get an answer to your
> query directly, please post it to this group...
	[...]

I was able to build binary RPMs from rpm-4.0.4-7x.src.rpm on my
RedHat 6.2 machine, but only if I changed

    %define with_perl_subpackage  1

to this:

    %define with_perl_subpackage  0

near the top of the rpm.spec file.  I also changed

    Release: 7x

to this:

    Release: rh6_sarrazip

to properly identify the resulting packages.

This change means that I did not build the rpm-perl package, which
I didn't have before and don't need now anyway.

Note that I compiled with gcc 2.95.3, not the original gcc 2.91.66
that came with RH6.2.  It apparently doesn't matter.

I was able to upgrade with the command `rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm'.
The --nodeps was necessary because gnorpm complained that it needed
librpm.so.0.  After the upgrade worked, I rebuilt the database with
`rpm --rebuilddb', then uninstalled gnorpm with `rpm -e gnorpm'.

I got messages talking about a "Broken package chain", but they
seemed harmless.

Now, the `rpm -qa' command displays the whole list without crashing.

-- 
Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip at sympatico dot ca>