Need help building my own rpm

Hungry ghost · 02-27-2006, 02:39 PM

Hi all. I recently downloaded gyachi which is an improved version of gyach-enhanced. I compiled it without problems after installing the required libraries and installed it. Now I'm playing with the idea of making a rpm file with the source, but I have some problems: I made a rudimentary .spec file following some howto's I've seen on internet, but after I run 'rpmbuild -ba gyachi-20060208.spec' from inside the SPECS directory I can see it's extracting the package, running the configure shell script and running 'make', but after that, it just builds a .src.rpm package, not the binary package which is what I'm really looking for.

Here's how my .spec file looks:

Code:

Summary: A yahoo! client
Name: gyachi
Version: 20060208b
Release: 0
Group: Applications/Internet
License: GPL
Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz

%description
GyachI is an improved version of GyachE, a feature-rich client for the yahoo instant messaging protocol.

%prep
%setup -q

%build
%configure
make

%makeinstall

Any help on building the binary package is greatly appreciated.
As a side note, I have no experience in programming.

Thanks in advance.

bigrigdriver · 02-27-2006, 04:36 PM

The -ba switch to rpmpuild is *supposed* to build both .src.rpm and .rpm. It's possible that your rpmbuild has a bug. Try rpmbuild -bb (to build only a binary .rpm).

For all you could ever want to know about rpm, go to the Red Hat website. Somewhere under Documentation, you will find THE book on rpm - Maximum RPM. You can read it on-line, or download it. Chapter 13 deals with writing .spec files.

Hungry ghost · 02-27-2006, 05:48 PM

No go, when I run 'rpmbuild -bb gyachi-20060208.spec' it seems to run the configure script but not 'make', since I get the following results:

Code:

(...)configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands
+ make
Making all in client
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/vicente/rpmbuild/BUILD/gyachi-20060208/client'
make  all-am
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/vicente/rpmbuild/BUILD/gyachi-20060208/client'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/vicente/rpmbuild/BUILD/gyachi-20060208/client'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/vicente/rpmbuild/BUILD/gyachi-20060208/client'
Making all in webcam
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/vicente/rpmbuild/BUILD/gyachi-20060208/webcam'
make  all-am
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/vicente/rpmbuild/BUILD/gyachi-20060208/webcam'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/vicente/rpmbuild/BUILD/gyachi-20060208/webcam'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/vicente/rpmbuild/BUILD/gyachi-20060208/webcam'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/vicente/rpmbuild/BUILD/gyachi-20060208'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/vicente/rpmbuild/BUILD/gyachi-20060208'
+ exit 0
Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files %{buildroot}
[vicente@dyn-1043 SPECS]$

This is really weird since I can compile it cleanly manually and with 'rpmbuild -ba'.
Well, I'll get the Maximum RPM book and study it hard to see if I find my way around this issue

Thanks for your help.

MasterC · 02-27-2006, 07:35 PM

Not to stray too far, but...

I use checkinstall. It creates an RPM for me, I don't use SPEC or SRC.RPM instead I use the real source, compile it my way, and then instead of running make install, I run checkinstall and it creates an RPM for me.

Cool

Hungry ghost · 02-27-2006, 09:30 PM

Cool! I had no knowledge of this program, but now I've seen something weird: I created the .rpm file with checkinstall, then opened it with file-roller, I can see a directory to be extracted in '/' containing two subdirectories: 'usr' (containing 'local/share/gyachi') and -here comes the weird part- a 'selinux' directory, which contains a 'context' file (a binary file). To explain myself further I'll make a graphic explanation on the contents of the package:

______selinux/context
/----______usr/local/share/gyachi

So, my question is, why a messaging app should write something in the /selinux directory during the installation? It sounds like some sort of virus to me (or some trojan perhaps?). After I noticed this, I issued the command 'ls -la /selinux', and this is what I got:

Code:

[vicente@dyn-1043 ~]$ ls -la /selinux
total 8
drwxr-xr-x   1 root root    0 feb 27 03:30 .
drwxr-xr-x  23 root root 4096 feb 27 07:30 ..
-rw-rw-rw-   1 root root    0 feb 27 03:30 access
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root root    0 feb 27 03:30 avc
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root root    0 feb 27 03:30 booleans
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    0 feb 27 03:30 checkreqprot
--w-------   1 root root    0 feb 27 03:30 commit_pending_bools
-rw-rw-rw-   1 root root    0 feb 27 03:30 context
-rw-rw-rw-   1 root root    0 feb 27 03:30 create
--w-------   1 root root    0 feb 27 03:30 disable
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    0 feb 27 03:30 enforce
-rw-------   1 root root    0 feb 27 03:30 load
-rw-rw-rw-   1 root root    0 feb 27 03:30 member
-r--r--r--   1 root root    0 feb 27 03:30 mls
crw-rw-rw-   1 root root 1, 3 feb 27 03:30 null
-r--r--r--   1 root root    0 feb 27 03:30 policyvers
-rw-rw-rw-   1 root root    0 feb 27 03:30 relabel
-rw-rw-rw-   1 root root    0 feb 27 03:30 user
[vicente@dyn-1043 ~]$

As you can see, all the contents of the selinux directory seem to have been created today (I reinstalled gyachi today from the source).
As a side note, I downloaded the program from http://gyachi.sourceforge.net/

So what do you think?? And what should I do now??

Edit: Should I open a new topic in the Security forum??