Problem rebuilding Simons new source RPM

[Ramiro Morales]

On 25 Nov 2002 at 16:53, Simon Matter wrote about "Re: Problem rebuilding Simons new source RPM":

> Harris Landgarten schrieb:
> > 
> > I tracked down the cause of the problem but am still looking for the
> > source.
> > 
> > For some reason perl man pages are being installed to /usr/man instead
> > of  /usr/shared/man
> > 
> > This causes the find /var/tmp/cyrus-imapd-2.1.10-root/usr/share/man
> > -type f -name "Cyrus*" to find nothing and the following string of
> > commands to fail with an error.
> > 
> > Do you have any idea what could be causing this?
> 
> Sorry, no. Maybe there is something wrong with you man path?

I'm the original author if that piece of shell code for my
packages of Cyrus 2.0.x. When I had reports of these kind
it was because the installed copy of Perl was not installed
via RPM (and hence the Perl man pages location as reported
by perl -V weren't under the path described by the %{_mandir}
RPM macro (/usr/share/man)).

HTH,

-
Ramiro


> 
> Simon
> 
> > 
> > Harris
> > 
> > On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 04:01, Simon Matter wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The only thing I can say is that the source RPM build fine on a
> > > untouched RedHat 8.0 installation. I can't make sure it will build
> > > on a system where many packages have been installed from other
> > > places than the distribution RPMs.
> > >
> > > It's as easy as this:
> > > - Install RedHat 8.0.
> > > - Rebuild the source RPM.
> > >
> > > Simon
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I am currently running Cyrus 2.1.9 under Redhat 8 using Simons
> > > > source RPM. I had no problem recompiling and installing from the
> > > > source RPM per documentation. Subsequently I have updated many
> > > > Perl Modules. When I try to rebuild the 2.1.10-3 rpm from source I
> > > > get an error during the rebuild process. The error is from this
> > > > section of shell script:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > # Create filelist for perl package, compress manpages before
> > > >
> > > > [ -x /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress ] && /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
> > > >
> > > > find
> > > > /var/tmp/cyrus-imapd-2.1.10-root/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i38
> > > > 6-linux-thread-multi/Cyrus
> > > > /var/tmp/cyrus-imapd-2.1.10-root/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i38
> > > > 6-linux-thread-multi/auto/Cyrus -type f -print |
> > > >
> > > >   sed "s@^/var/tmp/cyrus-imapd-2.1.10-root@@g" |
> > > >
> > > >   grep -v perllocal.pod |
> > > >
> > > >   grep -v "\.packlist" > perl-Cyrus-2.1.10-filelist
> > > >
> > > > find /var/tmp/cyrus-imapd-2.1.10-root/usr/share/man -type f -name
> > > > "Cyrus*" -print |
> > > >
> > > >   sed "s@^/var/tmp/cyrus-imapd-2.1.10-root@@g" |
> > > >
> > > >   grep -v perllocal.pod |
> > > >
> > > >   grep -v "\.packlist" >> perl-Cyrus-2.1.10-filelist
> > > >
> > > > if [ "$(cat perl-Cyrus-2.1.10-filelist)X" = "X" ] ; then
> > > >
> > > >   echo "ERROR: EMPTY FILE LIST"
> > > >
> > > >   exit -1
> > > >
> > > > fi
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > It appears that perl-Cyrus-2.1.10-filelist is never being written
> > > > at all. If I manually run these commands after erroring out,
> > > > perl-Cyrus-2.1.10-filelist is properly written. I am not sure how
> > > > to debug an rpmbuild -rebuild so I can see what is going on. BTW,
> > > > when I try rpmbuild -rebuild on the original 2.1.9 source RPM that
> > > > I originally installed from, it errors out in the same place. When
> > > > I tried rebuilding on another Redhat 8.0 box on which the perl
> > > > modules are relatively untouched, the rpmbuild ran to conclusion.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas on what is going on or how to debug an rpmbuild -rebuild
> > > > would be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Harris
> > --
> > Harris Landgarten <harrisl at lhjonline.com>
> 
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