Re: GnoRPM: what version of RPM has rpmProblemSetFilter?

[Dan Hensley <dan hensley worldnet att net>]

James Henstridge wrote:

> gnorpm should compile with versions 2.4.x up to 3.0 (there some problems
> with 3.0.1, and there are a few conflicts between gnorpm and rpm-3.0.2
> which should be fixed for the release).

This second message was actually from the same problem as the first.  Tonight
there seems to be about a 40-minute latency between the time I send the
message to gnome-list and when it actually comes back.  I thought my first
message hadn't gone through.  But now I'm having different problems with
compiling.

> When you were changing versions of rpm-devel, did you rerun configure?
> This is required if you change the configuration of your system between
> running configure and building the program.  It may also be necessary to
> remove config.cache if it exists (it caches some of the results of
> configure -- not always what you want when you change what the results
> should be ...).

I tried back-installing rpm-devel for both 3.0 and 3.0.1 using rpm -Uvh
--force (and ivh).  Each time, this is what I get when I rerun configure:

checking for rpmRunTransactions in -lrpm... no
checking for rpmdbFindByTriggeredBy in -lrpm... no
checking for rpmdbOpen in -lrpm... no
configure: error: can't find librpm (usually in rpm-devel package)

So I reinstalled devel-3.0.2, ran configure, and then installed 3.0.  Then I
got messages about not being able to find __bzero.  This makes me wonder if
the rpm-devel package I downloaded was from RH 6??  (This is one of the
reasons I'm starting to dislike RPMs even more--they can be such a pain
sometimes).

At any rate, I'm still unable to compile.  Maybe I'll just kill the RPM rpm's
and redo them from source so I can get this thing to work.

> If your system is rpm-3.0 based (eg RH6, Mandrake 6, etc), then I
> recommend compiling gnorpm with rpm-devel-3.0, or grabbing a binary RPM
> from ftp.gurulabs.com.  If your system is rpm-2.5.x based, then you should
> not have trouble compiling gnorpm.

I forgot to mention that I'm running RH 5.1 with almost all of the patches.

Thanks,
Dan

>
> > I'm trying to compile GnoRPM without success.  It fails on an unknown
> > function rpmProblemSetFilter.  I downloaded the source for RPM 2.56 and
> > 3.02, and that function does not exist in either.  However, I found some
> > include files on my system that do have it, but now I don't know what
> > version this comes from (maybe 3.0 or 3.01?).  Could someone point me in
> > the right direction to get GnoRPM to compile?checking for
> rpmRunTransactions in -lrpm... no
> checking for rpmdbFindByTriggeredBy in -lrpm... no
> checking for rpmdbOpen in -lrpm... no
> configure: error: can't find librpm (usually in rpm-devel package)
>