On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 08:28 -0700, mark pryor wrote: > hello, > > I'm going to try this question again. The first time I botched it and > the answers I got were useless. > > I want to use rpmdevtools to help with some packaging chores. There is > no C5 version that I can find. I've located an SRC RPM in a location > that is known to be C5 compatible. There are 2 versions of > rpmdevtools: > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/SRPMS/rpmdevtools-6.1-0.1.fc6.src.rpm > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/SRPMS/rpmdevtools-5.3-1.fc6.src.rpm > > naturally I grabbed the highest version (6.1) and rebuilt it for EL5. > The installation halted, missing a version of rpm-build higher than > the base version in C5. It seems that rpm-build 4.4.2.1+ comes from > FC7. This is the first time that I've seen an FC6 repo package that > depended on something from FC7. To use the 6.1 version, you need an updated version of rpm ( > 4.4.2 ). FC6 uses rpm-4.4.2.1, which is a slightly modified version of rpm-4.4.2 from F7 (F7 uses python-2.5, FC6 uses python-2.4). > rpmdevtools 5.3.1 builds, installs, and works fine on C5. > > I think I made the right decisions here (balking at trying to install > a higher version of rpm-build). > > If you need to use rpmdevtools, how would you approach the problem? > What source repo would you use? Is there an rhel5 SRC RPM? Where is > it? You can try looking at EPEL for it. EPEL is the rebuilding of Fedora Extras, by the Fedora team. If you look at http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/SRPMS/repoview/rpmdevtools.html , you will see that the most recent version is 5.3-1. -- Timothy Selivanow <timothys at easystreet.com> Linux System Administrator EasyStreet Online Services, Inc. http://www.easystreet.com