Re: [Rust-users] Patched makeRPM.sh

[Michael D. H. <mh...@nu...>]

Pretty funny.  Our virus scanner deleted your makeRPM.sh.  :-P

No worry, I grabbed from the archive.

Michael

On Tuesday 02 March 2004 12:51 pm, Belden Lyman wrote:
> Yesterday I found rust while looking for a gui RPM. After a few botched
> attempts at creating a new rpm from source (fltk-1.1.4), I managed to
> get rust to dtrt.
>
> I installed rust 0.18 from rpm; the source wouldn't build on my Redhat 9
> box. rusthq notes that the 0.18 rpm is for Redhat 7. It installed just
> fine for me.
>
> The first few times that I ran rust it didn't actually make an rpm. The
> crust.log showed makeRPM.sh carping about a string too long for '[...]'
> to handle; it's the test to see whether $INCLUDE is '-t'.
>
> The next problem was that 'rpm -ba' was always being issued. But the
> logic is:
>
>      MAKESOURCERPM=0
>      ...
>      if [ $MAKESOURCERPM ]
>      then
>        $RPM -ba $SPECFILE
>      else
>        $RPM -bb $SPECFILE
>      fi
>
> I changed the test to
>
>      if [ $MAKESOURCERPM == 1 ]
>
> which then correctly issues 'rpm -bb $SPECFILE'.
>
> However, makeRPM.sh still failed. It turns out that Redhat 9 ships with
> rpm version 4.2. Versions 4.2 and higher of rpm have deprecated the -bb
> (and -ba) flag; 'rpmbuild' should be used instead. So I added some extra
> logic to check the version of rpm: if it's lower than 4.2, 'rpm -bb' (or
> 'rpm -ba') gets issued. If it's 4.2 or higher, rpmbuild gets used
> instead.
>
> 2 attachments; a unified diff, and the changed makeRPM.sh
>
> Belden