Archive for the ‘rpmbuild’ Category

When Perl and RPM don’t get along.

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Sometimes when building rpm packages you will get an rpm that requires a file that it already contains. This seems pretty lame (which it is) but here is an example and a workaround. Building a package for freepbx we see this output: rpmbuild -ba freepbx.spec --------snip----------------- Provides: config(freepbx) = 2.4.0-0 Requires(interp): /bin/sh /bin/sh Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames)