rpmbuild and dependency disabling
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at iesabroad.org
Wed Aug 3 13:33:58 UTC 2005
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul Howarth
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 2:19 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: RE: rpmbuild and dependency disabling
>
> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 13:26 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul Howarth
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 11:40 AM
> > > To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> > > Subject: Re: rpmbuild and dependency disabling
> > >
> > > Paul Howarth wrote:
> > > >> libodbc.so is needed by java-ies-1.4.2-08.i386
> > > >> libodbcinst.so is needed by java-ies-1.4.2-08.i386
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hmm, an unversioned soname. The unixODBC package provides
> > > libodbc.so.1
> > > > and libodbcinst.so.1; I wonder why you're getting the
> > > unversioned ones?
> > >
> > > This appears to be a common problem with java packages.
> > > Here's one way you can try to work around it:
> > >
> > > Near the top of your spec file, add this:
> > >
> > > %define _use_internal_dependency_generator 0 %define
> > > our_find_requires %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/find_requires
> > >
> > > (you may need to alter "%{name}-%{version}" to be the name of the
> > > directory your package source gets unpacked into)
> > >
> > > At the end of the %prep section of your spec, add this:
> > >
> > > # Kludge to remove bogus odbc dependencies cat <<EOF
> > > >%{our_find_requires} #!/bin/sh echo unixODBC exec
> > > %{__find_requires} | /bin/egrep -v '^(libodbc(inst)?\.so)$'
> > > exit 0
> > > EOF
> > > chmod +x %{our_find_requires}
> > > %define __find_requires %{our_find_requires}
> > >
> > > That will hopefully result in a sensible set of
> dependencies being
> > > generated.
> > >
> > > Paul.
> > >
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> > >
> >
> > Thanks for your help, most of the dependancies seem to have
> been taken
> > care of, but I'm still getting a few. The following line is giving
> > rpmbuild an error:
> >
> > %define __find_requires %{our_find_requires}
> >
> > I'm using FC3 and rpmbuild version 4.3.2
>
> Works for me. I trust the version from your spec file is not
> as mangled as the version quoted above in your mail is (line
> ends in the wrong places)?
>
> You might want to check the original post at
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-August/msg003
15.html to verify that what's in the spec is the same as what I > sent
rather than what your mail client presented.
>
> Paul.
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>
Thanks for your help Paul, everything is working great.
-Mike
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