A colleague supplied me with a set of rpms he built on his Fedora box and when I tried to install them with yum localinstall I got a missing dependency:
Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package hipl-doc.i386 0:1.0.4-1 set to be updated ---> Package hipl-tools.i386 0:1.0.4-1 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.5 for package: hipl-tools ---> Package hipl-firewall.i386 0:1.0.4-1 set to be updated ---> Package hipl-lib.i386 0:1.0.4-1 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.5 for package: hipl-lib ---> Package hipl-agent.i386 0:1.0.4-1 set to be updated ---> Package hipl-debuginfo.i386 0:1.0.4-1 set to be updated ---> Package hipl-test.i386 0:1.0.4-1 set to be updated ---> Package hipl-daemon.i386 0:1.0.4-1 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package hipl-lib Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package hipl-tools
Centos 5.2 provides python 2.5.1. My colleague's system where he made these rpms also has 2.5.1. How do I determine what rpm I need to install to get this dependency?
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package hipl-lib Centos 5.2 provides python 2.5.1.
Are you sure?
On an up to date system:
# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.2 (Final) # rpm -q python python-2.4.3-21.el5 # rpm -q --provides python | grep -Fw 'python(abi)' python(abi) = 2.4
You should look at where your friend got this Python from.
HTH, Filipe
Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package hipl-lib Centos 5.2 provides python 2.5.1.
Are you sure?
On an up to date system:
# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.2 (Final) # rpm -q python python-2.4.3-21.el5 # rpm -q --provides python | grep -Fw 'python(abi)' python(abi) = 2.4
Oh, interesting. I got the same answer, but I also get:
# python -V Python 2.5.1
So which is it?
You should look at where your friend got this Python from.
HTH, Filipe _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Oh, wow, is my system hosed now....
Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package hipl-lib Centos 5.2 provides python 2.5.1.
Are you sure?
On an up to date system:
# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.2 (Final) # rpm -q python python-2.4.3-21.el5 # rpm -q --provides python | grep -Fw 'python(abi)' python(abi) = 2.4
You should look at where your friend got this Python from.
Some more testing shows
# python -V Python 2.4.3
as well. He had me download the 2.5.1 source for Python and compile it. Of course that broke the previously installed rpms, like yum!
I am going to either have to find 2.5 that I can install on Centos (from a Fedora box), but that will most likely break even more things. Or get him to build a Centos box and do the build there...
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
Oh, wow, is my system hosed now....
Yes, for sure! Replacing the system's python is a pretty bad idea these days, as many of RedHat's tools depend on it.
I am going to either have to find 2.5 that I can install on Centos (from a Fedora box), but that will most likely break even more things.
Yes it will. Restore the one from CentOS by reinstalling the CentOS RPM with --force.
Or get him to build a Centos box and do the build there...
You can do that on your own box (after you fix it). Just get the source rpm (.src.rpm) file, install the "rpm-build" package, and then use the "rpmbuild" command to build the package.
Basically the steps to configure rpmbuild to work on your machine are:
$ mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS} $ echo '%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild' >~/.rpmmacros
And then to rebuild a source rpm:
$ rpmbuild --rebuild xxxxxx.src.rpm
By the way, do we already have something on CentOS Wiki to help people build their own RPMs? I think this would be helpful, since it's not that easy to find that information from the man pages and documentation.
HTH, Filipe
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Filipe Brandenburger filbranden@gmail.com wrote:
Basically the steps to configure rpmbuild to work on your machine are:
$ mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS} $ echo '%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild' >~/.rpmmacros
And then to rebuild a source rpm:
$ rpmbuild --rebuild xxxxxx.src.rpm
By the way, do we already have something on CentOS Wiki to help people build their own RPMs? I think this would be helpful, since it's not that easy to find that information from the man pages and documentation.
Not as a separate page but as part of the Kernel Source Wiki article:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/I_need_the_Kernel_Source#head-a8dae925eec15786...
Yes, it is probably a good idea to provide its own wiki page because rebuilding from srpm is frequently asked in other places as well (like IRC and forums).
Akemi
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