Sudden dependency on rpm

Mon Oct 3 14:58:19 UTC 2011

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Tim T. <tim.timmerman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 ?
>
> The dependency check is done to the end of the %install stanza, AKA in
RPM_BUILD_ROOT. You can

- rpmbuild -bi <yourspec>.spec
then

follow this blog
http://devzero2000.livejournal.com/tag/rpm%20binary%20dependency
if you want to know which program is responsable of a specific deps

hth

> 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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