Building RPMS (Was Re: [plug] Recompilation fo the whole box and fluffy dice... )

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, John Summerfield wrote:

> The order of building is not important. However, I'd not try to build RHL 
> 6.1 on RHL 4.2 or even 5.2 - it simply will not work.

Of course it is important .... try building the php rpm with out the imap and
apache rpm's being extracted and compiled.

> > They do .... with a little tweaking you can build packages as a normal user
> > BUT it you trust the software enought to use it then surely you tust the 
> > makefiles to not do "bad things"(tm).
> 
> Given the bad things I've seen some do, no.

<snip>

> and if the spec file doesn't specify it and the user doesn't specify it, 
> it updates the running system. I've seen at least one rpm try.


Well you seem to contradict yourself .... first you are carefull enough to
check the source/makefiles for security problems BUT then you don't check the
.specs for issues ???

> The truth is that building an RPM should not install it on the build host. 
> I have seen at least one RPM that tried to.

Okay so we both agree that builing an rpm doesn't install it.   If the srpm
has an issue then contact the maintainer for the srpm and supply a patch.

> I regularly report problems to the developer list. bugzilla is less 
> convenient:

The deval list and bugzilla serve different purposes. They are npt
interchangeable.
 
> [summer at possum summer]$ ping www.redhat.com
> PING www.portal.redhat.com (206.132.41.202) from 192.168.1.6 : 56(84) 
> bytes of data.
> >From emu (192.168.1.2): Destination Net Unreachable
> >From emu (192.168.1.2): Destination Net Unreachable
> >From emu (192.168.1.2): Destination Net Unreachable
> >From emu (192.168.1.2): Destination Net Unreachable
> 
> --- www.portal.redhat.com ping statistics ---
> 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss
> [summer at possum summer]$

What is the point of you ping ???
Are you trying to show that you can't use bugzilla if you modem isn't active?
or are you having problems with your masquerading ???


Yours Tony.