Re: [Ltib] Build failed on rpm-fs

[Jan Wilmans]

Gentlemen,

The problem with Ubuntu is that it comes with rpm v4.7.2 which
requires --force-debian in order to install anything.
A (relatively new, since 4.7.0-8) feature of rpm directs you to use
alien to install rpm packages on Ubuntu!

1) one of the first things ./ltib does is download rpm-4.0.4, which I
think is a good idea, but somehow I don't think ./ltib is using this
version later on.

2) I've tried to manually install rpm-4.0.4, but I've had no luck
doing so (configure: error: ./configure failed for db3)

This is probably because Ubuntu also comes with db4 instead of db3
(consulting http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/RPM-for-Unix-HOWTO.html#ss2.2)

configuring in db3
running /bin/sh ./configure  --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=.
configure: error: cannot find sources in .
mv: cannot stat `Makefile': No such file or directory
cat: Makefile.orig: No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `db.h': No such file or directory
cat: db.h.orig: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `listobjs'.  Stop.
configure: error: ./configure failed for db3

even after manually installing:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/db3/db3_3.2.9.orig.tar.gz
(./configure, make, make install seems to work fine)

running /bin/sh ./configure  --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=.
configure: error: cannot find sources in .
make: *** No rule to make target `listobjs'.  Stop.
configure: error: ./configure failed for db3

It still failed....

3) Then I've tried to patch ./ltib by adding --force-debian to various
$cmd lines and managed to get it to install up to the point that the
configure menus allowed me to select packages, and configure the
kernel (menu-config style). _but_ it still fails when compiling the
actual kernel.

Eventually I gave up on my Ubuntu machine (for now), I've now moved to
my windowsXP machine, installed Fedora 13 in virtualbox and here
./ltib was more or less working out-of-the-box. No problems installing
at all. (I have heard there can be CR/LF issues, but I have not
encountered any in this configuration. I suspect you will be fine as
long as you download and extract any tar.gz archives inside
virtualbox. (dont use winzip or other win32 aware archivers).

To make this long story short: Ubuntu 10.4 + TLIB still has some
issues that need to be sorted out.
I think the best way to start would be to move to rpm-4.7
compatibility, _but_ I suspect there are some other issues also,
I'm willing help testing, but I'm out of ideas how to proceed at this stage.

(on Ubuntu anyway) meanwhile, I'll continue my work on the Fedora 13
and wait for a good Ubuntu solution.

Greetings,

Jan Wilmans


On 29 July 2010 18:21, Peter Barada <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 00:02 +0800, casper iway wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Why can't i get LTIB to work on my ubuntun running in Virtual Box.. I always
> got an error of 'rpm-fs' when running './ltib'.
> Please look at the attach log file.. Hope someone could help me figure out
> about the problem.
> I only got this problem on my computer(ubuntu 32bit running in virtual box),
> but at my work i get LTIB running fine with the same setup(ubuntu 32bit
> running in virtual box).
>
> Try removing both rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz and rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz.md5 and try again -
> if it gets past that, then where did you're original package set come from
> (a .iso?)?  If so, then possibly your .iso is broken (maybe it has CRLF
> endings instead of LF endings as Linux expects).
>
> Thanks
> Casper
>
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