Sudden dependency on rpm

[Tim T.]

Hi,

Think I owe everyone a follow-up on this question: (and pose a new question:
at what stage are dependencies determined ? )

After an email discussion with Jeff Johson, I managed to track down cause of
the sudden dependency: A mistake by one of my colleagues had turned on the
execute bit on all of our archive. Since the %install stanza just copies the
files from the archive to the buildroot, suddenly the files were executable,
and the rpm dependency checking got triggered.

However, this doesn't quite explain everything:

A number of other files (which are installed to application paths) also have
their execution bit turned on, but don't show their dependencies when I do a
--filerequire

In other words, it looks like the dependency is not always picked up, or at
least attached to the individual path names.

My question : At what stage is the dependency check done ? During the build
phase, or after the install phase of the spec file ?

Thanks,

TimT

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 14:47, Tim T. <tim.timmerman at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 14:19, devzero2000 <pinto.elia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Tim T. <tim.timmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> "Suddenly" my rpms show a dependency on /bin/sh where they didn't before
>>> !
>>>
>>> Before, when ?
>>
>> What is the result of this command on  the original  rpm and the rebuild
>> rpm ? Sure
>> are you using the same machine and the software version ?
>>
>> rpm -qp --queryformat '%{RPMVERSION}\n'  TimT-5.0.1.d-0.x86_64.rpm
>>
>
> both cases  4.8.0, and I'm sure I'm using the same buildhost in both
> cases.. there is only one available
>
>
>
>>
>> BTW, /bin/sh is because you probably have some scriplet section and use sh
>> for it (%pre, %post ecc): the default.
>>
> The package contains a number of scripts for installation purposes. The
> thing that triggered me to look at this was the /usr/bin/ksh which did not
> exist. I'd fix that, but I'd like to understand what caused the change
> between last friday afternoon and this morning.  (found some older versions
> of the RPM, also built using 4.8.0, same contents, no dependency on /bin/sh
> or /usr/bin/ksh )
>
> Thanks for your input !
>
> TimT.
>
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>>> Last friday, I build a package TimT-5.0.1.d-0.x86_64.rpm
>>>
>>> rpm -qip --requires TimT-5.0.1.d-0.x86_64.rpm
>>> Name        : TimT                   Relocations: (not relocatable)
>>> Version     : 5.0.1.d                           Vendor: Tim T.
>>> Release     : 0                             Build Date: Fri 23 Sep 2011
>>> 10:39:29 AM MEST
>>> Install Date: (not installed)               Build Host: buildhost
>>> Group       : System                        Source RPM :
>>> TimT-5.0.1.d-0.src.rpm
>>> Size        : 35881                            License: commercial
>>> Signature   : (none)
>>> Summary     : installation software
>>> Description :
>>> TimT - installation software
>>> rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
>>> rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
>>>
>>>
>>> This morning I rebuilt the package :
>>> rpm -qip --requires TimT-5.0.1.a-0.x86_64.rpm
>>> Name        : TimT                   Relocations: (not relocatable)
>>> Version     : 5.0.1.a                           Vendor: TimT
>>> Release     : 0                             Build Date: Tue 27 Sep 2011
>>> 12:25:26 PM MEST
>>> Install Date: (not installed)               Build Host: buildhost
>>> Group       : System                        Source RPM:
>>> TimT-5.0.1.a-0.src.rpm
>>> Size        : 35881                            License:commercial
>>> Signature   : (none)
>>> Summary     : installation software
>>> Description :
>>> TimT - installation software
>>> /bin/sh
>>> /usr/bin/ksh
>>> rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
>>> rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
>>>
>>> (for legal reasons, I changed the name of the package in the above
>>> output. )
>>>
>>> The only deliberate change in the above is the version number from
>>> 5.0.1.d to 5.0.1.a
>>>
>>> My systems people swear that they did not change anything, installation
>>> history on the buildhost confirms this
>>>
>>> Source files haven't changed, they are simple shell-scripts and they do
>>> use the /bin/sh, and /usr/bin/ksh
>>>
>>> rpms are generated using
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/rpmbuild -bb --quiet --buildroot /tmp/buildroot timt.spec
>>>
>>> spec file hasn't changed.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions as to where to look ? I'm stumped.
>>>
>>> Tim T.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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