On Mon, January 6, 2014 16:51, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

Looks like it's rtrying to install it, not just build it. In the first example, you're trying to replace the existing /usr/bin/strip, which only root can do. Are you doing make, or make install?

I started out by using the openssl.spec file for openssl-1.0.1f directly from openssl.org. The contents of that file are provided at http://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blob_plain;f=openssl.spec;hb=.... What I then do download the source from openssl.org and put that into ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES and extract it. I then copy ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/openssl-1.0.1f/openssl.spec into ~/rpmbuild/SPECS and run the following commands:

mock --buildsrpm --sources=./rpmbuild/SOURCES --spec=./rpmbuild/SPECS/openssl.spec

mock --no-clean --rebuild --root=default /var/lib/mock/epel-6-x86_64/result/openssl-1.0.1f-1.src.rpm

This gives the error reported above. I realize that this is a naive approach but I after looking at the Redhat openssl.spec file I thought it best to start with the base files provided by the origin and work out any build problems one by one making the absolute minimum number of changes possible.

The nearest equivalent Redhat openssl.spec file that I found is that used by Fedora 20 for openssl-1.0.1e and its contents are displayed here: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/openssl.git/tree/openssl.spec?h=f20

From what I have read elsewhere, Fedora/Redhat openssl begins with a set of

modified source files. The spec file additionally applies about 43 patch files of which 27 alter the functionality of the package. It is not within my ability to determine what effect of the modifications to the source and these additional patches have on the integrity of the openssl provided with RHEL. Is there any third party in our community which does?