[WBEL-users] RPMBUILD Confusion ?

[Ralph Blach]

John,

Thanks for th pointers.

You have pointed out the trick, and that is getting the chroot 
enviroment facility working first.  Your scripts will be very good there.

Thanks for the pointers.  I will do that.  I really want to do this 
sucessfully once.

Chip


John Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 08:07, Ralph Blach wrote:
>  
> 
>>>%_topdir        %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild
>>>
>>
>>I found I had to import the entire redhat rpmmacro file to get the 
>>rpmbuild process to correctly build.  Just setting %_topdir did not 
>>really do it.  trying to do an rpmbuild --rebuild never worked.
> 
> 
> Then something else is wrong.  The only other things in my .rpmmacros
> file are things to set the vendor tag, the gpg config, etc.
> 
> Here is everything in the .rpmmacros file for the chroot tree where
> WBEL4 final is coming off the build process:
> 
> %_topdir        %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild
> # Change the line below before uncommenting it unless you are building
> # packages destined to ship under the 'official' WhiteBox name.
> %vendor         whiteboxlinux.org
> %compsversion   4.0.whitebox
>  
> %rpmdbname      whitebox
> %rpmdbversion   4
> %rpmdbtree      %(echo $HOME)/whitebox/en/4
> %basedir        %(echo $HOME)/whitebox/en/4/i386/WhiteBox/base
>  
> %_signature gpg
> %_gpg_path /home/buildsys/.gnupg/
> # Of course you must change this to match your keyring
> %_gpg_name 73307DE6
> %_gpgbin /usr/bin/gpg
> 
> 
>>Also, one of the most frustating things about this entire proceess of 
>>building RPMS's from the sources that I cant seem to install down a new 
>>install root and I cant get rpm to check for dependencys from that 
>>install root.
> 
> 
> It can do that.  My createchroot script does "rpm --root $CHROOT -ivh
> $PKGSET" to install a block of packages down a chroot tree.  It will
> correctly throw errors for failed dependencies.  You do have to init a
> blank rpm database first.  Here are the commands:
> 
> rpm --root $CHROOT --initdb
> rpm --root $CHROOT --import $DISTRO/RPM-GPG-KEY
> 
> The --inport gets rid of the endless stream of complaints about gpg
> signatures.
> 
> But why are you mixing up building from source with installing the
> finished binaries?  Once you have a working chroot you install and build
> the srpms from within it.  You do the chroot and then you operate as if
> it were a whole new machine, running rpm and rpmbuild from a shell in
> the chrooted environment.  Get everything just so and X apps even work
> so you can test your freshly rebuilt copy of firefox without having to
> touch the outside 'real' OS.
>