[Peeweelinux] FTP server & Web Server

[Troy Engel]

A HOWTO posted on the list would be rockin, you know.... :)

nudge nudge,
-te

Daniel Purcell wrote:
> 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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