[Mageia-dev] Trouble building rkhunter RPM

Fri Jan 14 06:28:35 CET 2011

I posted this to the general list, but didn't receive any useful
+comments so far.
+
+I'm trying to learn a little about packaging and was attempting to
+build source and binary packages from a tarball with an embedded .spec
+file for rkhunter-1.3.8-1 and maybe submit it to Mageia with
+appropriate rkhunter.conf tweaks to remove false positives when I'm done.
+
+Building on Mandriva 2010.2, "rpmbuild -ta" fails with:
+
+<SNIP>
+Processing files: rkhunter-1.3.8-1
+error: File not found:
+/home/hoyt/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/rkhunter-1.3.8-1.i386/usr/lib/rkhunter
+error: File not found:
+/home/hoyt/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/rkhunter-1.3.8-1.i386/usr/lib/rkhunter/scripts
+error: File not found by glob:
+/home/hoyt/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/rkhunter-1.3.8-1.i386/usr/lib/rkhunter/scripts/*.pl
+error: File not found by glob:
+/home/hoyt/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/rkhunter-1.3.8-1.i386/usr/lib/rkhunter/scripts/*.sh
+
+I contacted the author, who says the rpm will build on Fedora. He
+says: "Path error. The .spec file "%define _prefix /usr/local"
+and in the %files section "%{_libdir}/%{name}" should pick up
+"%_prefix". For some
+reason it doesn't but then again I never built RPM's on Mandriva..."
+
+... and gave me a hack to try that fails also with an error he has
+never seen before,
+error: Package already exists: %package __restore__
+
+The .spec file as provided defines %define _prefix as /usr/local. Yes,
+I know that it should be /usr for a Mandriva-specific package, but I'd
+like to actually build the package first so I can understand what
+needs to be patched to build from the pristine sources on
+Madriva/Mageia, not start from scratch - that kind of defeats the
+purpose of RPM.
+
+In the %files section "%{_libdir}/%{name}" should pick up "%_prefix"
+so as to have a value of /usr/local/lib,
+but it does not. As a result, some files don't get created in the proper
+directories and the build fails.
+
+What I'm asking is if there is a difference in how Mandrake handles
+that substitution versus how Fedora handles that. I installed Fedora
+in a VM and the package builds fine on Fedora, but I get the error on
+Madriva. I've examined the .spec file and don't see where there is any
+obvious problem, so I'm seeking some guidance as to where to look
+deeper.
+
+While I can find lots of (mostly useless) info on RPM building through
+Google, I'm not sure where to look for any Mandriva docs for that, so
+a suggestion for that would be welcome as well.
+
+-- 
+Hoyt
+