[e-smith-devinfo] Problems building a Python RPM

[Des Dougan]

I was very interested when I saw Brian High's Plone announcement last 
month. Unfortunately, I haven't had much time to play with it until now. I 
have it running on my test box, but noticed a message in the log that 
python 2.2 was not supported, so decided to try to build a python 2.1 RPM 
for 5.6.

I downloaded and installed the dependencies, as well as the various 
compiler and make tools, and ran the rpm --rebuild command. This went off 
and did its thing for quite some time (over 10 minutes on my test box, a 
PPro 180), before it failed. The following is the tail end of the console 
messages:

+ cp -pr LICENSE Misc/ACKS Misc/BLURB.LUTZ Misc/BLURB.WINDOWS Misc/HISTORY 
Misc/NEWS /var/tmp/python2.1-2.1.3-root/usr/share/doc/python2.1-2.1.3
+ exit 0
Finding  Provides: (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides)...
Finding  Requires: (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires)...
error: line 328: Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_' or 
'/': %defattr(-,root,root)

error: Failed to find Requires:
Provides: _codecs.so _locale.so _socket.so _symtable.so _testcapi.so 
_weakref.so array.so audioop.so binascii.so bsddb.so cPickle.so 
cStringIO.so cmath.so crypt.so dbm.so errno.so fcntl.so fpectl.so gdbm.so 
grp.so imageop.so linuxaudiodev.so math.so md5.so mmap.so new.so nis.so 
operator.so parser.so pcre.so pwd.so pyexpat.so regex.so resource.so 
rgbimg.so rotor.so select.so sha.so strop.so struct.so syslog.so termios.so 
time.so timing.so unicodedata.so xreadlines.so
PreReq: rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) 
<= 3.0.4-1
Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
Requires: ld-linux.so.2 libc.so.6 libdl.so.2 libm.so.6 libpthread.so.0 
libutil.so.1 libcrypt.so.1 libexpat.so.0 libgdbm.so.2 libnsl.so.1
Processing files: python2.1-devel-2.1.3-1
Finding  Provides: (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides)...
Finding  Requires: (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires)...
PreReq: rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) 
<= 3.0.4-1
Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
Requires: python2.1 = 2.1.3 /bin/sh
Processing files: python2.1-tkinter-2.1.3-1
error: File not found by glob: 
/var/tmp/python2.1-2.1.3-root/usr/lib/python2.1/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so*
Requires: python2.1 = 2.1.3-1
Processing files: python2.1-tools-2.1.3-1
Finding  Provides: (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides)...
Finding  Requires: (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires)...
error: line 328: Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_' or 
'/': %defattr(-,root,root)

error: Failed to find Requires:
PreReq: rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) 
<= 3.0.4-1
Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
Requires: python2.1 = 2.1.3-1

RPM build errors:
    line 328: Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_' or '/': 
%defattr(-,root,root)

    Failed to find Requires:
    File not found by glob: 
/var/tmp/python2.1-2.1.3-root/usr/lib/python2.1/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so*
    line 328: Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_' or '/': 
%defattr(-,root,root)

    Failed to find Requires:

Can someone shed some light on what is causing the failure? I'm assuming 
I've missed something, but can't really see what that might be. The source 
RPM came from the python.org web site, FWIW.

Thanks,



Des Dougan 

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