Hi All,

I need help on rpmbuild command. I am working on RHEL3 platform. I wanted to create a RPM package for my application. I followed these steps to create RPM package.
1. created one .spec file according to the requirement.
2. run the command rpmbuild -bs filename.spec
3. This will create the src package
4. Then ran the command rpmbuild -ba filename.spec.

this will build the RPM package in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 path.

When i go to that path and run " rpm -i filename.rpm"
it throws the following error
error: Failed dependencies:
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) is needed by filename
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by filename

So when i use rpm -i --nodeps filename.rpm, i will not get the dependencies error. Hence the problem is solved.

But i want to build the rpm without any dependencies. when i saw the rpmbuild --help, it says we can use "rpmbuild --nodeps -ba filename.spec"

But i am not able to configure the dependencies error while installing the rpm.

Can anyone please suggest me a solution where i can configure the dependencies error while building the rpm.

Thanks in advance

? just howmany old RHEL3 servers are you going to install this on ?
if just one then why make a rpm out of the source .
there will not be that many packages that will install with up2date for rhel3

just install the source

Try adding these in the spec file

Then build the rpm and install.

Hi John,

I want to customise my RPM package, not to have any dependencies.

Thanks

Hi the_gripmaster,

I tried your solution but it didnot work. i want to avoid the dependencies check while building the RPM which indeed will resolve the problem while installing the RPM.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks