Re: Building an SRPM on Debian?
2 things you can do:
1. Read the .spec file and applie the patches in the order they are mentioned there.
2. Run /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb --initdb ( or whereever debian puts it ) and try to rpm again :)
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:14:50AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> I have an SRPM that I need to build on my Debian box. Really, I don't
> need to build it I just need to get to the patch phase (-bp) so that it
> constructs the proper source hierarchy and applies the patches (there
> are a lot of patches and they have to be applied in a certain order).
>
> I'd installed the Debian RPM and I used rpm -i to install the SRPM,
> which put the source in the SOURCES directory and the spec file in the
> SPECS directory just fine.
>
> But, when I try to run the "rpm -bp" I get this error:
>
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
> error: cannot open rpm database in /var/lib/rpm
>
> I created that directory and put an empty Packages file there, but I
> get:
>
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
> error: cannot open rpm database in /var/lib/rpm
>
> I don't want to do anything else with RPM, I just want to get this
> source set up correctly. It's annoying that I appear to need a Packages
> DB just for that, but I apparently do.
>
> Does anyone know how to construct a legal Packages file (I guess it can
> be empty--not contain any packages) on my Debian (woody/testing) box?
>
> Thx.
>
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