RPM failed deps gone loopy

[Susan Macchia]

Ah crap, that s*ks.  Can you take the tarfile and build it manually?  A pain,
but it may work, meanwhile you can let RH know how much they blew it...

Of course it may be that they relied on a 3rd party to create the rpm and they
just included it in their distro (they still should have tested it though).

netllama at linux-sxs.org wrote:

>Ya, its not every SRPM that does that just some of them, and they're all 
>directly from RH-7.3.
>
>Susan Macchia wrote:
>> Lonni,
>> 
>> You may have already done this, but I would try building another src.rpm to
>> determine if the problem is with the rpm file (which I suspect), or with rpm
>> itself.  Then, if the problem is the rpm file, whereever you got the src.rpm
>> (redhat?) is who should fix the problem.  I bet its with the scripts
>> that are used to build the source from the rpm or some such.
>> 
>> Good luck and HTH
>> 
>> netllama at linux-sxs.org wrote:
>> 
>>>That could very well be the problem.  If so, its RedHat's fault, as all 
>>>i've been doing is "rpm --rebuild <file.src.rpm>" and then attempting to 
>>>install the resulting RPM.
>>>
>>>Susan Macchia wrote:
>>>
>>>>Lonni,
>>>>
>>>>I've been writing a lot of k-shell scripts lately; to execute and assign
the
>>>>value of an external "program", you would say, for example:
>>>>
>>>>foo=$(cat foobar)
>>>>
>>>>Which is why I am replying...  
>>>>
>>>>the LIST=$(...  looks like this - could be some kind of syntax error 
>>>
>>>somewhere
>>>
>>>>or something.  Just thought I'd throw this out as symptomatic of some
>>>>script problem?
>>>>
>>>>Don't know if this helps but...
>>>>
>>>>netllama at linux-sxs.org wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I'm in the process of rebuilding the RH-7.3 SRPMs, and then installing
>>>>>them.  I'm starting to see some very very weird stuff, for failed
>>>>>dependencies:
>>>>>
>>>>>CXXFLAGS   is needed by libsigc++-devel-1.0.3-5
>>>>>LIST=$(shell   is needed by libsigc++-devel-1.0.3-5
>>>>>
>>>>>No, neither is a typo , that's exactly how they appeared.  I'm using the
>>>>>exact same version of rpm that i've had for a few weeks (prior to the
>>>>>manual upgrade i'm doing).


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