Changelog 3/5/2009 New in Version 4.76.24-3

[Julian Field]

On 06/05/2009 21:02, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> I understand you are tired of this conversation. Me too :). So I will quit with this last one. I agree there is a failure of communication but it isn't due to a lack of understanding, but rather disbelief.
>
> Please read what I have to say one more time.  A little more patience an I am outta your hair with this.
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> I do realize that you are trying to be helpful.
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> Please realize that I too am trying to be helpful.
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> On Wednesday 06 May 2009 16:47:33 Julian Field wrote:
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>> On 06/05/2009 14:31, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
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>>> On Wednesday 06 May 2009 14:11:27 Julian Field wrote:
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>>>> No, I'm talking about all the RPMs installed by install.sh that are
>>>> required by MailScanner. Many of these are architecture-independent. If
>>>> I don't give them a BuildArch and know the BuildArch that it is going to
>>>> use, how can I possibly know which directory to find them in?
>>>>          
> Because there is a default Buildarch parameter already set in the rpm build environment.
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> How can you discover what it is by running the following command in the shell and consquently in your bashscript.
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> rpm --showrc | awk '/^build arch/ {print $NF}'
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> Try to run it please in a console. Please.,, this isn't a question of a lack of understanding. It is a question of disbelief.
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> Please believe what I'm writing to you here.
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> If you don't specify Buildarch in your spec file the final rpm will be built in the folder defined by default Buildarch
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> You define Buildarch as noarch and consequently the built rpms are placed in
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> ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch
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> If you don't specify then it will be
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> ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64
> ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386
> ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i586
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> etc depending on the the default environment. How would install.sh know where to look. An example is defined below wih the perl-File-Temp-0.20-4.
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> The example assumes a modified spec file with the Buildarch pararmeter removed from the file. And the rpm builds successfully which it does. On an x86_64 platform the final rpm is called.
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> perl-File-Temp-0.20-4.x86_64.rpm
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which is wrong as it contains no architecture-dependent code and so 
should be in noarch.
Which was my point all along :-)
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> example of the contents of the bash script would be
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> DefaultRPMBuildArch=$(rpm --showrc | awk '/^build arch/ {print $NF}')
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> rpm -Uvh ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/$DefaultRPMBuildArch/perl-File-Temp-4.$DefaultRPMBuildArch.rpm
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> Please note the substitution of the variable $DefaultRPMBuildArch as it holds the value of the default Build Arch
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> Thanks for your time an patience.
>
> Eli Wapniarski
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>    

Jules

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