[CentOS] Building rpms

[Johnny Hughes]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:28 -0500, Matt Hyclak wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:16:08AM -0500, Bowie Bailey enlightened us:
> > From: Matt Hyclak [mailto:hyclak at math.ohiou.edu]
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:05:48AM -0500, Bowie Bailey enlightened us:
> > > > 
> > > > I found an rpm from Fedora Core Development on RPMFIND.  Will this one
> > work
> > > > with Centos, or should I grab the source rpm and rebuild it?
> > > 
> > > Rebuild from src.rpm. 
> > 
> > Ok, tried that...
> > 
> > $ rpmbuild --rebuild openldap-2.3.11-3.src.rpm
> > Installing openldap-2.3.11-3.src.rpm
> > error: Failed build dependencies:
> >         bind-libbind-devel is needed by openldap-2.3.11-3.x86_64
> >         libtool-ltdl-devel is needed by openldap-2.3.11-3.x86_64
> > 
> > # yum install bind-libbind-devel libtool-ltdl-devel
> > Setting up Install Process
> > Setting up repositories
> > update                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> > base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> > addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> > extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> > Reading repository metadata in from local files
> > Parsing package install arguments
> > No Match for argument: bind-libbind-devel
> > No Match for argument: libtool-ltdl-devel
> > Nothing to do
> > 
> > Where do I find these two?  Do they have different names with CentOS,
> > or do I have to get them from elsewhere?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Bowie
> 
> You'll probably have to get them from the FC Development repository as well.
> You're probably looking at the bind and libtool srpms, if I had to guess.
> If you're lucky, those two won't depend on too much else, otherwise you'll
> spiral quickly into dependency hell.
> 


What is the purpose of the LDAP upgrade ... if it is security you are
worried about ... those get in there.

See this:
http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_backport.html

When you start changing major components, you greatly reduce the
stability of CentOS for yourself ... and you ruin the system
interoperability.
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