Cannot rebuild RPM packages with rpmrebuild because of missing files

d1s4st3r · 04-29-2010, 08:14 AM

Hi guys,

I made a script that, by using "rpmrebuild" (which is available on SourceForge and uses rpmbuild as its backend), recreates all the currently installed RPM packages and stores them in a user-defined directory.

Everything works like a charm, except for a few packages.

Those packages fail to build because some of the files they should contain are missing on the filesystem.

This is an example of the errors I get:

Code:

error: File not found: /etc/identd.key
    File not found: /etc/identd.key
/usr/lib/rpmrebuild/rpmrebuild.sh: ERROR: package 'pidentd-3.0.14-5' build failed

error: File not found: /usr/share/ssl/certs/stunnel.pem
    File not found: /usr/share/ssl/certs/stunnel.pem
/usr/lib/rpmrebuild/rpmrebuild.sh: ERROR: package 'stunnel-3.26-1.7.3' build failed

Is there a way to ask rpmbuild (because yes, rpmrebuild allows to pass parameters to rpmbuild) to *ignore* the missing files?

Thanks in advance! :-)

knudfl · 04-29-2010, 10:34 AM

Impossible to say why the script fails.

It is a Redhat 7.3 package, you can get it here
http://ftp.riken.go.jp/pub/Linux/fed...t/7.3/os/i386/
http://ftp.riken.go.jp/pub/Linux/fed....14-5.i386.rpm
> pidentd-3.0.14-5.i386.rpm

Or rebuild it from
http://ftp.riken.go.jp/pub/Linux/fed.../7.3/os/SRPMS/
http://ftp.riken.go.jp/pub/Linux/fed...0.14-5.src.rpm
> pidentd-3.0.14-5.src.rpm

Valery Reznic · 04-30-2010, 02:35 AM

From the rpmrebuild man page:

Code:

-c, --comment-missing=<yes|no>
    comment out in the specfile missing files. Default: no.

Valery

d1s4st3r · 04-30-2010, 03:31 AM

Thanks, Valery!
It works fine now, that was the trick! :-D
I knew about that option but the description "comment out in the specfile missing files. Default: no." is not so easily understandable... :-|

Valery Reznic · 05-01-2010, 03:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by d1s4st3r

Thanks, Valery!
It works fine now, that was the trick! :-D
I knew about that option but the description "comment out in the specfile missing files. Default: no." is not so easily understandable... :-|

Could you suggest another description ?