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Ethics question

Tony Earnshaw — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:53:58 GMT

Hi, Climbing the rpm spec-writing learning curve, it's going ok (no basic problems on RHAS3/4). It's both profitable and fun :) Besides maximum and Guru Labs

Doing a pre install stop of daemon

Ray Charles — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 21:27:12 GMT

Hi, I am building a new squid rpm and I want the rpm to gracefully (rather than just kill -9) shutdown the current running squid daemon, when the admins do the

duplicate packages after up2date failure

Damian Menscher — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 20:41:10 GMT

We were taking advantage of the weekend to update our RHEL4.1 machine to RHEL4.2. It is worth mentioning that it is an x86_64 box. While running up2date, it

Re: Adding a build history to an RPM

Jason Pyeron — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:22:07 GMT

I am looking for something similar too. I need to capture the rpmbuild command line options and rpmmacros. I already save the envronment, rpm -qa, and

Re: Adding a build history to an RPM

Bob Proulx — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 05:11:26 GMT

... What you are asking for is a little unusual. Typically the build would not be stored with the resulting binary. But if you really wanted to you could

Re: How can I control the name of the rpm created by rpmbuild?

Jos Vos — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:53:43 GMT

... Redefine %_build_name_fmt in your .rpmmacros file (see /usr/lib/rpm/macros for the current format). -- -- Jos Vos -- X/OS Experts in

How can I control the name of the rpm created by rpmbuild?

Christian Goetze — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:47:25 GMT

It seems that rpmbuild will generate the rpm file into RPMS//--..rpm How can I change this? I'd like to have

Re: Updating packages with name changes

Jason Frisvold — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 15:15:35 GMT

... Greetings, ... Apparently not.. Perhaps it's a safety mechanism... ... yep.. that worked.. thanks for the info... ... -- Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold

Re: Updating packages with name changes

Lenz Grimmer — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:41:06 GMT

... Hash: SHA1 Hi, ... Strange. I assume that "--freshen" does not take obsoleting packages into account and only looks for identical package names. Did you

Relative Path

Yermat — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:13:17 GMT

Hi all, I want to create an rpm for a java program that is not from me because one of my program depend on it. The problem I have is that I want to create an

Re: Updating packages with name changes

Jason Frisvold — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:18:45 GMT

... Update, not freshen? Hrm.. I have the new files in a directory with up2date using that directory as a source. However, up2date doesn't even show 4.1.14

Re: Updating packages with name changes

Lenz Grimmer — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:53:42 GMT

... Hash: SHA1 Hi, ... Yes: $ rpm -qp --provides MySQL-server-standard-4.1.14-0.rhel4.i386.rpm MySQL MySQL-server config(MySQL-server-standard) =

Updating packages with name changes

Jason Frisvold — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:37:00 GMT

Hi all, Just a quick question here.. It seems that MySQL has changed the naming scheme of their packages. How do I force an update of the existing package to

Re: avoiding conflicts with %config

Will Harris — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 01:53:39 GMT

... Hash: SHA1 That will work for me. Thanks. ... - -- Will Harris System Administrator State of North Carolina Office of Information Technology Services P.O.

Re: How to query for full name for required packages

Tony Earnshaw — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 20:53:40 GMT