[Sisuite-devel] Building RPM packages under Debian

[Bernard Li]

Brian or others:

How do I build RPM packages under Debian? I get the following when I
tried to build it:

# script -c 'rpmbuild -ta tmp/systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli.tar.bz2 '
rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian.
error: cannot open Providename index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian.
error: cannot open Name index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian.
error: cannot open Basenames index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian.
error: cannot open Conflictname index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: failed build dependencies:
docbook-utils is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
dos2unix is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
e2fsprogs-devel is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
flex is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
libtool is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
readline-devel is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
/usr/bin/wget is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
openssl-devel is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
gcc is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
gcc-c++ is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
python is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
python-devel is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
PyXML is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1

How do I fulfill these requirements under Debian?

Thanks,

Bernard

[Andrea Righi]

Post by Bernard Li
How do I build RPM packages under Debian? I get the following when I
# script -c 'rpmbuild -ta tmp/systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli.tar.bz2 '
rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian.
error: cannot open Providename index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian.
error: cannot open Name index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian.
error: cannot open Basenames index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian.
error: cannot open Conflictname index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
docbook-utils is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
dos2unix is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
e2fsprogs-devel is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
flex is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
libtool is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
readline-devel is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
/usr/bin/wget is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
openssl-devel is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
gcc is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
gcc-c++ is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
python is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
python-devel is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
PyXML is needed by systemimager-3.9.0r3972M_bli-1
How do I fulfill these requirements under Debian?

Maybe one problem is that you need to initialize your rpm DB, with "rpm
--initdb". The other problem is that the DB will be empty... so the
required dependencies can't be resolved... I dunno how to fix this,
apart adding a --nodeps to the rpmbuild command... but I'm sure there's
a cleaner way to resolve.

-Andrea