[ATrpms-users] Differing versions of rpm?

Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Fri Apr 21 02:07:25 CEST 2006


I'm a little unclear on a couple of things.

I'm running FC5, with the stock version of RPM, which tells me it's 4.4.2.

I've installed as per the directions on atrpms.net for using the
repository...

But I'm still unclear on a few things.

First, atrpms seems to use a different version of RPM than comes with
FC5, and it includes directives which aren't compatible, such as %kmdl.

But none of the packages on atrpms seem to have a dependency on a
particular flavor of RPM...  and many of them claim they installed an
RPM, when in fact they didn't.

I just tried to install "ieee80211" for instance, and saw:

[root at copper ~]# uname -a
Linux copper.albertsons.com 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5 #1 Tue Mar 28 03:38:34 EST
2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root at copper ~]# rpm --version
RPM version 4.4.2
[root at copper ~]# rpm -vv -i
http://dl.atrpms.net/all/ieee80211-1.1.13-10.rhfc5.at.i386.rpm
Retrieving http://dl.atrpms.net/all/ieee80211-1.1.13-10.rhfc5.at.i386.rpm
D:  ... as /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.81ir0Y
D: ============== /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.81ir0Y
D: Expected size:        13273 = lead(96)+sigs(344)+pad(0)+data(12833)
D:   Actual size:        13273
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
D: locked   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys rdonly mode=0x0
D:  read h#    1074 Header sanity check: OK
D: ========== DSA pubkey id 508ce5e6 66534c2b (h#1074)
D: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.81ir0Y: Header V3 DSA signature: OK, key ID 66534c2b
D:      added binary package [0]
D: found 0 source and 1 binary packages
D: ========== +++ ieee80211-1.1.13-10.rhfc5.at i386/linux 0x0
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Depends create mode=0x0
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename rdonly mode=0x0
D:  read h#    1075 Header V3 DSA signature: OK, key ID 66534c2b
D:  Requires: ieee80211-kmdl-1.1.13-10.rhfc5.at             YES (db
provides)
D:  Requires: rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1        YES (rpmlib
provides)
D:  Requires: rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1       YES (rpmlib
provides)
D:  Requires: rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1      YES (rpmlib
provides)
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname rdonly mode=0x0
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Depends
D: ========== recording tsort relations
D: ========== tsorting packages (order, #predecessors, #succesors, tree,
depth, breadth)
D:     0    0    0    0    1    0   +ieee80211-1.1.13-10.rhfc5.at.i386
D: installing binary packages
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages create mode=0x42
D: mounted filesystems:
D:     i        dev    bsize       bavail       iavail mount point
D:     0 0x0000fd00     4096      5949705      7223291 /
D:     1 0x00000003     4096            0           -1 /proc
D:     2 0x00000000     4096            0           -1 /sys
D:     3 0x0000000a     4096            0           -1 /dev/pts
D:     4 0x00000301     1024        81921        26067 /boot
D:     5 0x00000011     4096        64457        64456 /dev/shm
D:     6 0x00000012     4096            0           -1
/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
D:     7 0x00000013     4096            0           -1
/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs
D:     8 0x00000014     4096            0           -1 /net
D: sanity checking 1 elements
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name create mode=0x42
D: running pre-transaction scripts
D: computing 3 file fingerprints
Preparing packages for installation...
D: computing file dispositions
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Basenames create mode=0x42
D: ========== +++ ieee80211-1.1.13-10.rhfc5.at i386-linux 0x0
D: Expected size:        13273 = lead(96)+sigs(344)+pad(0)+data(12833)
D:   Actual size:        13273
D: ieee80211-1.1.13-10.rhfc5.at: Header V3 DSA signature: OK, key ID
66534c2b
D:   install: ieee80211-1.1.13-10.rhfc5.at has 3 files, test = 0
ieee80211-1.1.13-10.rhfc5.at
D: ========== Directories not explicitly included in package:
D:          0 /usr/share/doc/
D: ==========
D: fini      040755  2 (   0,   0)         0 /usr/share/doc/ieee80211-1.1.13
D: fini      100644  1 (   0,   0)      7706
/usr/share/doc/ieee80211-1.1.13/CHANGES;4447e917
D: fini      100755  1 (   0,   0)     18671
/usr/share/doc/ieee80211-1.1.13/LICENSE;4447e917
GZDIO:       4 reads,    26952 total bytes in 0.000536 secs
D:   +++ h#    1084 Header V3 DSA signature: OK, key ID 66534c2b
D: adding "ieee80211" to Name index.
D: adding 3 entries to Basenames index.
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Group create mode=0x42
D: adding "System Environment/Kernel" to Group index.
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Requirename create mode=0x42
D: adding 4 entries to Requirename index.
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename create mode=0x42
D: adding 3 entries to Providename index.
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Dirnames create mode=0x42
D: adding 2 entries to Dirnames index.
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Requireversion create mode=0x42
D: adding 4 entries to Requireversion index.
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Provideversion create mode=0x42
D: adding 3 entries to Provideversion index.
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Installtid create mode=0x42
D: adding 1 entries to Installtid index.
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Sigmd5 create mode=0x42
D: adding 1 entries to Sigmd5 index.
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Sha1header create mode=0x42
D: adding "d36e9a7871e6db969f6199c3e41b45beba96f939" to Sha1header index.
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Filemd5s create mode=0x42
D: adding 3 entries to Filemd5s index.
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Triggername create mode=0x42
D: running post-transaction scripts
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Filemd5s
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Sha1header
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Sigmd5
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Installtid
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Provideversion
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Requireversion
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Dirnames
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Triggername
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Requirename
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Group
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Basenames
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: May free Score board((nil))
[root at copper ~]#


What am I not understanding here?

Thanks,

-Philip





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