Dear Experts,

I'm struggling with an Oracle install on top
of the Redhat 5 os.

The solution I'm getting to some errors is to
download an .rpm file and run some fancy commands.

cat compat-db-4.1.25-9.i386.rpm | rpm2cpio | pax -r

I've managed to find a .src.rpm file.

From the .src, I want to create the .rpm file.
But NOT install it.
Since that would conflict with the newer version
of the same package that is already installed.


Linux occassionally change things with different releases.


My old notes say, to compile the .src file, use:

rpm --rebuild util-linux-2.11y-9.src.rpm


My questions are:

1) Is this syntax still correct on Redhat 5?
If not, what is the new correct syntax?
Perhaps use: rpmbuild?

2) If I run this command, does it create a .rpm file?
or, does it install it onto the system.

3) If that command would install the .src,
what is the correct syntax to create the .rpm ONLY?

Sorry for the seemingly dumb questions.
I don't want to just try this, and affect this install.

Thanks a lot!

Hi,

'rpmbuild --rebuild xxx' is the correct command, it will only create a new rpm not install it.

Is your machine set up to build rpm's ? (rpm -qi rpm-build)

BTW... there's no such thing as a dumb question, if you don't ask questions you'll never learn (people always told me I asked too many questions )

cheers

Thanks. This what I get.


rpm -qi rpm-build

Name : rpm-build Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 4.4.2 Vendor: Oracle USA
Release : 48.el5.0.1 Build Date: Wed 19 Mar 2008 05:03:46 PM CDT
Install Date: Sat 16 Jan 2010 07:50:19 AM CST Build Host: ca-build15.us.oracle.com
Group : Development/Tools Source RPM: rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.0.1.src.rpm
Size : 2098087 License: GPL
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Fri 21 Mar 2008 07:24:56 PM CDT, Key ID 66ced3de1e5e0159
Summary : Scripts and executable programs used to build packages.
Description :
The rpm-build package contains the scripts and executable programs
that are used to build packages using the RPM Package Manager.


I'd actually tried that.
Now I get another error. Sigh.
I'll make another post.

rpmbuild --rebuild compat-db-4.1.25-9.src.rpm


...
./libtool: line 1015: -e: command not found
./libtool: line 1015: -e: command not found
./libtool: line 1015: -e: command not found
./libtool: line 1015: -e: command not found
./libtool: line 1043: -e: command not found
./libtool: line 1067: -e: command not found
: compile: cannot determine name of library object from `'
make: *** [mut_pthread.lo] Error 1
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.61332 (%build)


RPM build errors:
InstallSourcePackage: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.61332 (%build)

You'll need to have all the dependencies installed before rebuilding it

<edit>To clarify: rpms will have 'build dependencies' and 'runtime dependencies' - you'll need the build dependencies (usually -devel packages)
</edit>

cheers