[WBEL-devel] Re: WBEL at breakage (you won't believe)

[David L. Parsley]

Hi all,

Well, I naturally had to fix this bug for Tao Linux, as well - and of 
course, at wouldn't build for me either!  Here's how I got it to build:
- I checked the date & time of the last at that built (Dec 14, 1:30pm)
- date -s "Dec 14 13:30"
- voila.

This is, of course, completely insane.  I set the date/time back to 
now, and no go.

regards,
	David

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Paul Iadonisi wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 19:24, John Morris wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > For some strange reason, I can't rebuild the at rpm, now.  Getting a
> > > failure on 4 of the tests on both my custom build and on RHEL3.  But the
> > > atd binary is built by that point and it does reference
> > > /usr/sbin/sendmail, so I think putting /usr/sbin does fix the above
> > > stated problem.
> > 
> > Seems to depend on the version of glibc whether you get that error.  Try 
> > upgrading your build machine to the same version as WBEL3/RHEL3 and it 
> > should build correctly.
> 
>   Nope, and I'm stumped.  Here's what I've done (going back many weeks)
> and why the fact that it doesn't work now makes little sense.
> 
> 1) Installed a Taroon Beta system
> 2) Went through all the gyrations to build a complete set of rpms,
> upgrading and rebuilding rpms on my build system as required.  These
> rpms were all built as the root user.
> 3) With the help of some docs on whiteboxlinux.org, built some
> installable isos with my binary rpms.
> 4) Ran through a successful anaconda install of my fresh isos
> 5) Copied my newly installed system to an lvm volume (to be used as a
> chrooted system).
> 6) Installed the official RHEL3 for comparison purposes
> 7) Chrooted into my custom built system
> 8) Rebuilt all rpms as a non-root user with a small number of failures
> in my chrooted system
> 9) Fixed the build of all failed rpms, mostly due to /usr/kerberos/bin
> not being in my path.  mod_perl apparently won't rebuild with the
> version of the apache package shipped with RHEL3 -- you need the one
> that came with the beta.
> 
>   Now, you'll note that I didn't install any of the above resulting
> binary rpms, yet.  I have a log and a binary rpm that proves to me that
> the at rpm built successfully in this environment.  But now, that very
> same src rpm just won't build.  I've tried it on RHEL3 (original glibc
> shipped), WBEL3 (original glibc), WBEL3 (updated glibc), and my own
> custom build.  No dice.  The only thing I haven't tried is building it
> on taroon beta again, but I don't have a spare system to try this on at
> the moment.
> 
>   I'm not really in *great* need of fixing this, as it can always be
> built with the '--without check' option, but it just bugs me that this
> worked before and it doesn't now.
> 
>   My biggest gripe about this whole thing is how utterly useless the
> test results are.  It seems impossible to get any useful information
> about which 4 tests are failing out of the 3000+, what the input was,
> what the output was, etc.
> 

-- 
David L. Parsley
Network Systems Administrator, Alfred University
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on ye shoulders of giants."
	- Isaac Newton