Mandrake SRPMs on Fedora Core 1

[Aly Dharshi]

Hello,

	My question to you would be why would you want to try building a 
Mandrake rpm on FC1/2 ? Is there no corresponding SRPM from Fedora Core/ 
RedHat? I think that what you may want to do is to really take a 
reference to a doc which explains building rpms and/or srpms.

	Cheers,

	Aly.

William M. Quarles wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> If anyone has tried rebuilding a Mandrake SRPM on Fedora Core or Red Hat 
> Linux, your probably got this:
> 
> + %make
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.55192: line 53: fg: no job control
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.55192 (%build)RPM build
> 
> errors:
>     user florin does not exist - using root
> <SNIP>
>     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.55192 (%build)
> 
> Apparently the "fix" is that %build is not a macro defined for Red Hat 
> RPM distributions, so we need to steal it from Mandrake rpms and use it. 
>  Now this would be perfectly simple if I could just extract the files 
> from an RPM file of the RPM program for Mandrake, without having to 
> install them (you will get a Segmentation Fault if you try).  The only 
> problem is that the only way that I could figure out how to get the 
> files out was by using Alien to convert the RPM RPM to a tarball, and 
> extract the tarball.  Does anybody know of another way of doing this? 
> I'm sure that rpm2cpio could be used, but that seemed pretty complicated 
> for me to figure out on my own.
> 
> Peace,
> William
> 
> 


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