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Some Info
Using RHEL ES 3.
We decided to upgrade to MySQL 5.0 using mysql's rh3 rpms. This all went perfectly. Obviously we had to recompile the php-mysql rpm to use mysql5. To do this we get the php source using up2date --get-source, and installed the src rpm. Then I looked at the spec file, and commented out pgsql (i didn't see any other way to disable it), and installed whatever other dependancies there were.

The end result gave us a few rpms, one of which was php-mysql. this worked perfectly. In the process however, we managed to break mcrypt. I'm not sure how it broke, as we didn't change any of the base php rpm's, and mcrypt was working for about 1 week. None the less, the php-mcrypt rpm i had to get from a DAG repository. I don't want to keep having to fetch rpm's from random places to stay up2date, nevermind the security risk.

Question
So, how can i create the php-mcrypt-4.3.2-33.rpm? I have the mcrypt libs installed, and i can build php with mcrypt manually, I just can't do it in RPM. I have edited the spec file and tried to mimic what they did to make the php-mysql rpm.. I would think that adding modules would be a common task, especially for php.

with my edited spec file: rpmbuild -bb php.spec

Code:

 php = 4.3.2-33.ent

Obsoletes: mod_php3-mysql stronghold-php-mysql

Processing files: php-odbc-4.3.2-33.ent

Provides: config(php-odbc) = 4.3.2-33.ent odbc.so php_database

Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1

Requires: config(php-odbc) = 4.3.2-33.ent libc.so.6 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) libodbc.so.1 libodbcpsql.so.2 php = 4.3.2-33.ent

Obsoletes: stronghold-php-odbc





RPM build errors:

    File not found: /var/tmp/php-root/usr/lib/php4/mcrypt.so