[CentOS] Problems with building an rpm
Johnny Hughes
johnny at centos.org
Thu Jul 17 13:14:30 UTC 2008
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> wow!!!!
>
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> thanks for replying.
>>>
>>> R P Herrold wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I followed the setup instructions from
>>>>> http://www.owlriver.com/tips/non-root/
>>>>
>>>> ... the author is known to me ;)
>>>>
>>>>> Assuming that you are in /etc/sudoers!!!!
>>>>> And then asked for a password.
>>>>> Which password? My userid or root's? I tried both and after 3 tries
>>>>> got:
>>>>
>>>>> me is not in sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
>>>>> removing '/home/me/rpmbuild/BUILD/hipl--main--2.6/hipl-1.0.4'
>>>>
>>>> The end user account password is what sudo is looking for ... as
>>>> noted, it seems you had not configured /etc/sudoers to include you.
>>>>
>>>>> So I look at /etc/sudoers and do not understand what I am suppose
>>>>> to do there.
>>>>
>>>> A sample entry which permits a single user machine to do root
>>>> operations when needed, but to stay in its non-priv'd mode most of
>>>> the time looks like something as simple as:
>>>>
>>>> [herrold at new ~]$ sudo grep herrold /etc/sudoers
>>>> Password: [here, the end user 'herrold's password]
>>>> herrold ALL=(ALL) ALL
>>>> [herrold at new ~]$
>>>>
>>>> ... We need root rights to read /etc/sudoers, or else it would have
>>>> not been needed except for teaching reasons.
>>>>
>>>>> A bit of help would be greatly appreciated!
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps .. I wonder a bit at your description of untarring,
>>>> ./configure'ing, etc ... that is not part of rpm building from .spec
>>>> or SRPM.
>>> Here is what I was told to do:
>>>
>>> wget http://hipl.hiit.fi/hipl/hipl.tar.gz
>>>
>>> you can build on CentOS by executing:
>>>
>>> tar xvzf hipl.tar.gz
>>> cd hipl--main--2.6
>>> ./autogen.sh
>>> ./configure
>>> make rpm
>>>
>>> ("make install" works too, but installs to /usr/local by default)
>>>
>>> Software requirements are listed here:
>>>
>>> http://infrahip.hiit.fi/hipl/manual/ch02.html
>>
>> OK ... after several changes to the spec file, I got this to build.
>> The process was rather intense, so rather than trying to document it I
>> will post a good SRPM after I verify that all the build requirements
>> are there and it will also build the same in mock.
>>
>> So, in a couple minutes expect a link to download a GOOD SRPM for this
>> package that builds on centos-5 i386 and x86_64
>
> I am SOOOO thankful.
>
No problem
> You will definitely get a line of recognition for my IETF presentation
> on SIP over HIP over Teredo in two weeks! I should not have been sooo
> schrunched for time. I waited for management to get me the hardware for
> this 'experiment', and 4 months later it is finally ordered; I have had
> to cobble gear together....
look here:
http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/hipl/
You should be able to build that on CentOS-5.x with no problems. Now,
whether it does everything you need, I don't know.
Also be advised that 1.0.3 is the latest stable release from them, and
1.0.4 seems to be something from SVN and not a normal release.
Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
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