Problem with ALIEN, RPMBUILD has not been updated(Solved)

[Agent Smith]

Gentlemen,

After the APT UPGRADE, I haven't tried to convert a deb package to RPM.
But, this evening, I've tried to convert a program to RPM and it's failing because of RPMBUILD (missing)
I assume the reason is the upgrade to RPM 4.81, and, RPMBUILD has not been updated yet. Or is it deprecated ?

Can anyone help ?

Thanks in advance

Best regards

[Texstar]

Gentlemen,

After the APT UPGRADE, I haven't tried to convert a deb package to RPM.
But, this evening, I've tried to convert a program to RPM and it's failing because of RPMBUILD (missing)
I assume the reason is the upgrade to RPM 4.81, and, RPMBUILD has not been updated yet. Or is it deprecated ?

Can anyone help ?

Thanks in advance

Best regards

Try getting rpmbuild out of unstable for now until it gets moved into updates.

[Archie]

It should only be one of the .desktop that should fail because the old command rpm had been changed to rpmbuild and this hasn't been updated in your servicemenu.

If you can't manage to do what Tex instructed, you can, as root, edit /usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/build-spec.desktop, and replace all the Exec=konsole --noclose -e rpm ... with Exec=konsole --noclose -e -rpmbuild ...

As such:

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[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin
MimeType=text/x-rpm-spec;
Actions=addpkg;buildall;buildsrpm;buildbin;prp;prpcmp;cmponly;prpcmpins;insonly;listchk
X-KDE-Priority=TopLevel

[Desktop Action addpkg]
Name=Install Dependencies
Exec=konsole --noclose -e addpkg %f
Icon=application-x-rpm

[Desktop Action listchk]
Name=List Check
Exec=konsole --noclose -e rpmbuild -bl %U
Icon=application-x-rpm

[Desktop Action insonly]
Name=Install Only
Exec=konsole --noclose -e rpmbuild -bi --short-circuit %U
Icon=application-x-rpm

[Desktop Action prpcmpins]
Name=Prep/Compile/Install
Exec=konsole --noclose -e rpmbuild -bi %U
Icon=application-x-rpm

[Desktop Action cmponly]
Name=Compile Only
Exec=konsole --noclose -e rpmbuild -bc --short-circuit %U
Icon=application-x-rpm

[Desktop Action prpcmp]
Name=Prep/Compile
Exec=konsole --noclose -e rpmbuild -bc %U
Icon=application-x-rpm

[Desktop Action prp]
Name=Prep Only
Exec=konsole --noclose -e rpmbuild -bp %U
Icon=application-x-rpm

[Desktop Action buildbin]
Name=Build Binary
Exec=konsole --noclose -e rpmbuild -bb %U
Icon=application-x-rpm

[Desktop Action buildsrpm]
Name=Build SRPM Only
Exec=konsole --noclose -e rpmbuild -bs %U
Icon=application-x-rpm

[Desktop Action buildall]
Name=Build All
Exec=konsole --noclose -e rpmbuild -ba %U
Icon=application-x-rpm

[Agent Smith]

Try getting rpmbuild out of unstable for now until it gets moved into updates.

Thanks for the quick response, Mr. Reynolds, but, I'm not following here: You mean I should try to convert another package ? I have tried to convert a package from Debian Squeeze (the stable one, not Sid or Lenny)

It should only be one of the .desktop that should fail because the old command rpm had been changed to rpmbuild and this hasn't been updated in your servicemenu.

If you can't manage to do what Tex instructed, you can, as root, edit /usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/build-spec.desktop, and replace all the Exec=konsole --noclose -e rpm ... with Exec=konsole --noclose -e -rpmbuild ...

Thanks Mr. Archie for your kind response, but my problem was with ALIEN, and I don't use KDE 4(but I like it a lot).

Any other ideas ?

Thanks for your time and patience.
Kind regards

[Neal ManBear]

Agent Smith,
You misunderstood Tex completely. He said nothing about converting anything. He said you should install the rpm-build rpm from the unstable section of the repo.     
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2010/RPMS.unstable/rpm-build-4.8.1-4pclos2011.i586.rpm     

[Agent Smith]

Agent Smith,
You misunderstood Tex completely. He said nothing about converting anything. He said you should install the rpm-build rpm from the unstable section of the repo.     
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2010/RPMS.unstable/rpm-build-4.8.1-4pclos2011.i586.rpm     

Thank you very much, Mr. Neal. I didn't know such  repo existed, in the first place. I needed ALIEN to work yesterday, to convert a packet generator, so I don't have to use COLASOFT's via wine. But, the need is the driving force, I'm considering to enlist in the packagers section, to make rpm's and do not have these kind of problems.
Thanks again, I will enable this repo and try it. And later, I will try to enlist  in the packagers team (hope to be accepted)

Kind regards

[Bald Brick]

I will enable this repo and try it.

It's not a repo. It's a section of the repo, and you can continue using the same mirror as before. You just have to add unstable to the Section(s): line in Synaptic->Settings->Repositories.

[Agent Smith]

It's not a repo. It's a section of the repo, and you can continue using the same mirror as before. You just have to add unstable to the Section(s): line in Synaptic->Settings->Repositories.

Oh, thanks a lot Mr. Bald Brick for your remarks. It is interesting to know there's a testing section on PCLOS. I've been using it since 2007 and never knew it existed.

Best regards!

[Neal ManBear]

Unstable is not a section you want to remain selected all the time. It is called unstable for a reason.     

[and then..]

Hello,
error: Failed dependencies:
        rpm-pclinuxos-setup-build >= 1.34 is needed by rpm-build-4.8.1-4pclos2011.i586

unstable repo has rpm-pclinuxos-setup-build-1.134-2pclos2011.i586.rpm

Did I miss something?
Cages

[Sproggy]

Hello,
error: Failed dependencies:
        rpm-pclinuxos-setup-build >= 1.34 is needed by rpm-build-4.8.1-4pclos2011.i586

unstable repo has rpm-pclinuxos-setup-build-1.134-2pclos2011.i586.rpm

Did I miss something?
Cages

have you reloaded???

[and then..]

Hello,
error: Failed dependencies:
        rpm-pclinuxos-setup-build >= 1.34 is needed by rpm-build-4.8.1-4pclos2011.i586

unstable repo has rpm-pclinuxos-setup-build-1.134-2pclos2011.i586.rpm

Did I miss something?
Cages

have you reloaded???

No need to reload - Sproggy,
I was downloading the package directly from the ibiblio site>
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2010/RPMS.unstable/
Thanks, Cages

[Neal ManBear]

Use Synaptic. Reload.     

[Sproggy]

wow ... i guess those dependencies were resolved then

[Agent Smith]

Use Synaptic. Reload.     

Oh, Mr. Neal, I did use Synaptic and reloaded, but to no success. RPM build is not yet updated in Synaptic.
Am I doing something wrong here

Best regards,