[CentOS] Installing Dag's RPMs

Tue Jun 28 20:12:06 UTC 2005
Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, dan.trainor wrote:

> I wanted to know your guys' success rate when installing and rebuilding
> RPMs in CentOS (specifically 4.0) that have come from Dag's Repositories
> (http://dag.wieers.com/packages/).
> 
> I have noticed a number of these packages stalling at various points
> throughout an rpmbuild process, and I can't quite get it.  It looks
> almost as if they were all built for RHEL4.0, but if CentOS is supposed
> to follow so close in RHEL's footsteps, why would this be a problem?
> 
> I'll give Dag an email and see if he has anything to say about that.
> Once I get enough information, I'll just go ahead and hack up the RPMs
> so that they work properly on my systems - but I thought I'd ask
> beforehand, as to not re-invent the wheel.

Having the buildlog is essential to finding the cause. I provide buildlogs 
of my packages so if you have problems, you can always compare your output 
with mine. It's not impossible that there are missing build requirements 
or something else is different in the build environment.

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]