Hi,
I'd like to share my experiences with
rpm builds and leafnode v2.x.
Currently it fails for several reasons, if build as
normal users and/or root.
1) There is no README File, it is called README.html
despite what the .spec says.
So, the spec line about documentation will fail
even as root. I had to remove README fom %doc
2) Giving away created files and directories in $(INSTALLROOT)
to some other user failes because of permissions when
build as normal user.
Some directories needed for install
are not created inside of $(INSTALLROOT).
examples are:
/tmp/leafnode-$version-rpmbuild/usr/...
/tmp/leafnode-$version-rpmbuild/etc/...
I added a new rule rpm-install in Makefile.in, which
is mostly a verbatim copy of rule install, where each
"install .." has the group and owner settings removed.
You can even strip the permissions and let all files
have your own uid.gid + normal permissions because
rpm -U packet.rpm will set them according to the
definition in the .spec during install.
3) Because I'm building this on a SuSE system (7.2 & 7.1)
some file path are different.
eg: man pages and docs are expected under /usr/share/
If you don't set MANDIR to /usr/share/man, brp-compress
will hang and rpm will not create the package files
because it can not find the man directories!
I hope the resulting diff files are good enough to
fix the latest version of leafnode, too.
Here is the patch:
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In addition to the rpm fixes, I changed the behavior of error
output during initvars(progname).
This was neccessary to have an error log on failed uid changes
in leafnode when it is started as server from tcpd.
The original wrote every error message during initvars to STDERR
only instead of syslog as for the rest of the messages. I added a
call to ln_log for each instance of error report. I don't know if
level LNLOG_CTOP is ok, but I found it in the same file miscutil.c
and failures in global initialization should be logged all the time,
I guess.
Using syslog in initvars() requires ln_log_open() to be called before
initvars() which is fixed for all functions calling initvars().
The required changes against v2.0b8_ma7.6pre
are in this patch.
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Bye,
Volker Apelt
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