[Peeweelinux] FTP server & Web Server

[Daniel Purcell]

Barry,

Thank you for the e-mail.  I'll e-mail you later this day with the information 
you requested.  The previous post with those commands were (unfortunately) 
off the top of my head; I'll e-mail you the correct commands.  I did it all 
on my RedHat 8.0 machine.  Redhat 8.0 uses RPM version 4.1.

-Daniel

On Monday 07 July 2003 5:39 pm, Barry Gershenfeld wrote:
> Daniel,
>
> That was some pretty useful information in your recent post about
> creating packages.  Due to sparse documentation--and lack of
> equivalent experience--I am trying to work out how the packages
> are built (and creative uses for rpm & tar).
>
> I am trying to follow your suggestions with rpm and I ran into
> some difficulty.
>
> I downloaded a small package at random to try this with.
>
> I made a few tweaks to your sample command line:
> >shell $ rpm -i --root /temporary/directory/to/install --nodeps
> >--noscripts --force --nodeps --notriggers --dbpath= ./rpm.db
> >--ignorearch --ignoreos myftppackage-i386.rpm
>
> 1. --nodeps is mentioned twice.
> 2. dbpath shouldn't have an = sign after it.
> 3. dbpath is a directory, not a file.
> 4. from what I can tell, --dbpath is relative to --root.  In
>    fact, rpm version 3 demands both paths start with /
>
> I created a directory in my home directory called tarpit.
> I created a directory in that directory called rdata.
> I issued this command:
>
> $  rpm -i --root /home/phpmaker/tarpit/ --nodeps --noscripts --notriggers
> --force --dbpath /rdata --ignorearch --ignoreos gtactoe-0.2.1-1.i386.rpm
>
>   error: cannot open Basenames index using db3 - No such file or directory
> (2)
>
> I tried an init db (an effort left over from earlier difficulties)
> $ rpm -initdb --root /home/phpmaker/tarpit/ --dbpath /rdata
>
> It doesn't help.
>
> The rpm -i did create two files (Name and Packages) in the rdata
> directory so I think it is interpreting the command as I intend.
>
> I have done all my peewee work on a RH7.3 system (never had trouble
> except I had to discover kgcc when building a kernel), but
> given Scott McKay's recent problems with rpm, I booted up
> 6.2 and tried this there.  (7.3 uses rpm 4; 6.2 has rpm 3.)
> On 6.2 I get similar results, but for the install I actually
> get no error messages.  But I don't get any files extracted, either!
>
> I wonder if you could actually try the command and see what happens.
>
> At least the tar command in the second step doesn't look exotic.  And I
> may have to build the file trees by hand if I can't get this rpm
> trick to work.
>
> Barry
>
>
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