Re: [expert] Can you believe it?
On Friday, Jul 20, 2001, Craig Woods wrote: Still hacking away at rebuilding the bind 9 src file, I have added openssl-devel, libxml, libxml-devel, numerous updates, and a parser named byacc, and now I am closer than ever. This is what I now get at the end of a very long compile session + cd /var/tmp/bind-root/usr/share/man + tar xjf /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/bind-manpages.tar.bz2 tar: invalid option -- j Try `tar --help' for more information. Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.47472 (%install) It is hard to believe but somehow, during the install phase of the rpm --rebuild process, the process is issuing a tar command with an j option. Hell, I have never seen a j switch, and neither has man tar. Is there someway to alter this command? I think it might be the last piece in what has been a veritable jigsaw puzzle.. It's been a long time since you wrote your original message, but here's a reply anyway :) The option -j is to uncompress bzip2 archives and then untar them. It's correct for the version of tar that comes with Mandrake 8.0. However on older versions, it's option -I, not -j. Why it was changed, I don't know. Of course, this is assumming you're using the GNU version of tar. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 19 days 19 hours 35 minutes.
[expert] Can you believe it?
I can Still hacking away at rebuilding the bind 9 src file, I have added openssl-devel, libxml, libxml-devel, numerous updates, and a parser named byacc, and now I am closer than ever. This is what I now get at the end of a very long compile session + cd /var/tmp/bind-root/usr/share/man + tar xjf /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/bind-manpages.tar.bz2 tar: invalid option -- j Try `tar --help' for more information. Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.47472 (%install) It is hard to believe but somehow, during the install phase of the rpm --rebuild process, the process is issuing a tar command with an j option. Hell, I have never seen a j switch, and neither has man tar. Is there someway to alter this command? I think it might be the last piece in what has been a veritable jigsaw puzzle.. Again thanks to all, Craig Woods UNIX SA
RE: [expert] Can you believe it?
Hah! An undocumented update to TAR that was available on the developers machine(s). Look at the spec file in /usr/src/RPM/SPECS for the bind program. You can change it there and then use rebuild by using the modified spec file as well. The RPM book explains it. I don't remember the command to do this. You can update the source RPM with your modified spec. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Craig Woods Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 3:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Can you believe it? I can Still hacking away at rebuilding the bind 9 src file, I have added openssl-devel, libxml, libxml-devel, numerous updates, and a parser named byacc, and now I am closer than ever. This is what I now get at the end of a very long compile session + cd /var/tmp/bind-root/usr/share/man + tar xjf /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/bind-manpages.tar.bz2 tar: invalid option -- j Try `tar --help' for more information. Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.47472 (%install) It is hard to believe but somehow, during the install phase of the rpm --rebuild process, the process is issuing a tar command with an j option. Hell, I have never seen a j switch, and neither has man tar. Is there someway to alter this command? I think it might be the last piece in what has been a veritable jigsaw puzzle.. Again thanks to all, Craig Woods UNIX SA
RE: [expert] Can you believe it?
One thing I forgot to mention before. If you grab the tarball and use the ./configure script, it may learn how to deal with the items missing from your computer and go ahead and compile. You should grab the i586.rpm file and see where it would have placed the destination folders, then use the --target-dir= command for ./configure to tell it where to put the installation tree. This way later when you finally have a working RPM, you can install it without loosing compatibility with your existing files. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Craig Woods Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 3:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Can you believe it?
Re: [expert] Can you believe it?
Quoting Craig Woods ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): + cd /var/tmp/bind-root/usr/share/man + tar xjf /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/bind-manpages.tar.bz2 tar: invalid option -- j Try `tar --help' for more information. Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.47472 (%install) The j option is so that it can unzip the .bz2 file... you might want to upgrade your tar install Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] [ Windows/WindowsNT ] [ Fair is where you take your cows to be judged. ] PGP signature
