Making a RPM installer

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 10:28 +1000, Jamie Deppeler wrote:

Hi,

Not sure if this the correct place to post this issue but hopefully
someone can help.

Any reason why you just wouldn't use:

http://www.pgsqlrpms.org

and

http://www.jpackage.org/

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

There is a few reason why I am making this installer

1. Need to make a installer that just uses one rpm file
2. It needs to come with a prebuild database
3. Custom changes have been made to tomcat configuration

Joshua D. Drake wrote:

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 11:02 +1000, Jamie Deppeler wrote:

There is a few reason why I am making this installer

1. Need to make a installer that just uses one rpm file
2. It needs to come with a prebuild database
3. Custom changes have been made to tomcat configuration

Fair enough :) but it seems to me the way to do that is to make an rpm
that has the dependencies of the other rpms and then has a setup script
that builds the database, configures tomcat etc...

That way you don't break packaging, you meet your requirements and you
don't have anything funky going on :).

Just a suggestion.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

Jamie Deppeler <jamie@doitonce.net.au> writes:

I am building a rpm for RHEL 5
The rpm contains a compiled version for postgresql-8.3.3 and tomcat
6 and java 1.6.

When i try to install the rpm on blank test system i get the
following dependence issues
libodbc.so is needed
libodbcinst.so is needed

You must be including more than you said, because AFAIK none of those
components should depend on libodbc. Try going through all the .so
files included in the RPM with "ldd" to see which one(s) depend on these
libraries.

regards, tom lane

Tried to use "ldd" but i am getting not a dynamic executable

Tom Lane wrote:

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 11:02 +1000, Jamie Deppeler wrote:

There is a few reason why I am making this installer

1. Need to make a installer that just uses one rpm file

"Need" or "want"? I'd not maintain one RPM file that contains Tomcat5,
Java and PostgreSQL -- it would be PITA, imho. But of course, that is
me.

2. It needs to come with a prebuild database
3. Custom changes have been made to tomcat configuration

Both (2) and (3) are doable with both custom init scripts and custom
%post operations in spec file. I have done (2) in the past. You can add
your custom SQL file either to spec file or to init script. Same is
valid for (3). Add those changes as a patch to RPM itself

-HTH.
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ
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On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 10:28 +1000, Jamie Deppeler wrote:

When i try to install the rpm on blank test system i get the
following dependence issues

libodbc.so is needed
libodbcinst.so is needed

These both come from unixODBC package -- install that package first.
--
Devrim GÜNDÜZ
devrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr
http://www.gunduz.org