Re: GnoRPM: what version of RPM has rpmProblemSetFilter?

[Dan Hensley <dan hensley worldnet att net>]

James Henstridge wrote:

> Did you get the package from ftp.rpm.org or its mirrors?  For the packages
> there, they use the release part of the name to specify which version of
> red hat it was compiled with.  If you got the 3.0-6.0 package, you will
> have problems if you do not have glibc2.1 on your system.  The 3.0-5.2
> or 3.0-5.0 package is probably a better choice.

I got it from ftp.rpm.org.  I guess if I'd paid more attention to the name, I'd
have noticed the 6.0 in it.  But I got it solved.  I installed the wrong devel-3.0
rpm, then compiled 3.0 from source and over-wrote librpm.a with the one I
compiled.  Then everything went fine.  After I compiled and installed GnoRPM, I
updated my RPM back to devel-3.0.2.  So I'm in business.

Thanks a lot for your help,
Dan

> It is quite likely that there would be problems using a library compiled
> with egcs with gcc, unless you are using glibc2.1, which has some code to
> get rid of those problems.

I haven't yet upgraded to glibc2.1.  I think I'm going to wait until I get a new
distro and install it cleanly.

> On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Dan Hensley wrote:
>
> > > 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
> >