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extraction | Re: Binary only RPMs and inconsistencies between regular tarball
extraction 2005-04-29 - By Ed Brown
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I don't know if this applies to your case, but for some third party
software, I have had to tell rpmbuild not to strip the provided
binaries. If you put this in your specfile:
%define __os_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
it will replace the default value, which is:
# rpm --eval %__os_install_post
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-compress
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip /usr/bin/strip
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-static-archive /usr/bin/strip
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-comment-note /usr/bin/strip
/usr/bin/objdump
-Ed
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 07:58, Kevin Jackson wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'm building very simple binary RPMs to make rollout across the
> enterprise easier of (an old version of) Jakarta Tomcat.
>
> I create my filesystem layout of all our needed files.
> Run: rpmbuild -bb specfile --target=noarch
>
> And the binary RPM is built.
> This has worked seemingly successfully for many other apps to make
> rollout across our enterprise for some custom builds a lot easier.
>
> BUT - I have a problem. The resultant RPM is not the same as the
> tarball of the exact same structure.
>
> So In my spec file I explicitly have my files listed, with the same
> permissions as the tarball, taken from a working app server. The RPM
> fails - for those familiar with Tomcat (this is an old version, 4.0.6)
> and gives an error reading a file. But the file in question is fully
> editble and readable, but Tomcat sees it as a "null file".
>
> On removing the RPM and doing exactly what the RPM does, but with a
> tarball - the app works, as if the file packaging is corrupting the
> files.
>
> This has got so bad I've gone half way and created a "broken" RPM to
> fix this problem: Have a tarball in the RPM and extract in %post. I,
> like a lot of you whincing, want to avoid this -- but it means I don't
> have full confidence in any RPMs built now.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Kev
>
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