Rebuilding RPM file

Jerry Benton jerry.benton at mailborder.com
Wed Feb 18 10:33:16 GMT 2015


You seem to have missed this message I sent out 3 days ago:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.virus.mailscanner/80742


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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com



> On Feb 18, 2015, at 4:42 AM, Jason Ede <J.Ede at birchenallhowden.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> I know this is an old message, but did you get this sorted?
> 
> I'm trying to rebuild the srpm and having the same issue when I try to install it.
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Stef Morrell
> Sent: 21 February 2014 11:18
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Rebuilding RPM file
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to get an up to date RPM built, using a CentOS 6 machine do the building.
> 
> I've downloaded mailscanner-4.84.6-1.src.rpm
> 
> I've unpacked using rpm -i and that seems fine, I can see the source tgz and specs file as I would expect.
> 
> I've then unpacked the tgz, pulled in latest files from git and made a patch which I've added to the specs, then rebuilt the rpm. So far no problem.
> 
> When I come to install, however I have the following dependency issues:
> 
> --> Processing Dependency: perl(MailScanner::FileInto) for package: 
> --> mailscanner-4.84.6-1.noarch Processing Dependency: 
> --> perl(MailScanner::MCPMessage) for package: 
> --> mailscanner-4.84.6-1.noarch Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Package: mailscanner-4.84.6-1.noarch (/mailscanner-4.84.6-1.noarch)
>           Requires: perl(MailScanner::FileInto)
> Error: Package: mailscanner-4.84.6-1.noarch (/mailscanner-4.84.6-1.noarch)
>           Requires: perl(MailScanner::MCPMessage)
> 
> And on further investigation, if I simply 'rpmbuild --rebuild' the src rpm, the same dependency issues are present. I also notice the rpm I've generated is some 140k smaller than the one downloaded from the MS webpage.
> 
> So - I suspect I'm missing a trick with the rebuild. I have been simply doing ' rpmbuild -ba MailScanner4.spec'. Is there something else I should be putting on this command line?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Stef 
> 
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