Open willend opened 6 years ago
So, the issue is indeed that the alien-generated RPM file includes LOADS of autogenerated Provides like
Provides: libGL.so
%files %dir %attr(0755, root, root) "/" %dir %attr(0755, root, root) "/opt"
The problem is then that one does not really get access to the original 'spec' file of the rpm - but there seems to be a hack, available from a 'real'/non-debian RPM system:
Using
rpmrebuild -e -p MCRInstaller-7.13-2011.x86_64.rpm
will bring up an editor.
I will try to see if I can get that spec, edit it for sanity and repackage...
It seems the output RPM package that one gets when sanitising using rpmrebuild -e -p may work OK.
My plan is to replace the package at packages.mccode org by this resulting rpm
Morale looks to be that one can not simply 'use alien for the rpm'... Leads to nastyness... :-)
Just tested: The last available rpm-based ifit (1.3.3) also exhibit problematic behaviour, i.e. during installation you get
[root@pwillendrup-test2 ~]# yum install ifit Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package ifit.x86_64 0:1.3-3 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: ifit x86_64 1.3-3 mccode 22 M Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 1 Package Total size: 22 M Installed size: 23 M Is this ok [y/d/N]: y Downloading packages: Running transaction check Running transaction test Transaction check error: file / from install of ifit-1.3-3.x86_64 conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.2-20.el7.x86_64 Error Summary -------------
Can likely be remedied also using rpmrebuild -e -p, but maybe we should indeed make a set of cmake CMakeLists.txt inspired from the McStas side - which should result in more reasonable support for rpm based systems?
Starting to deploy build infrastructure for McStas at ESS DMSC, I have found a funny problem when trying to install mcstas-suite-perl or mcstas-tools-perl-2.4.1:
Secondly, installing it anyway fails with
Digging manually through automatically generated perl dependencies, it seems that 1) mcstas-suite-perl requires 2) mcstas-tools-perl which requires 3) perl-PDL (epel) which requires libGL.so and libGLU.so
The natural way to fill the dependencies under 3) would be to
but the dependency is for whatever reason attempted filled using MCRinstaller which ships a version of these .so's. (If I indeed install the mesa libs' MCRinstaller does NOT become a dependency?!?)
I have a feeling the reason is that the rpm which was converted from a deb via the 'alien' utility is really quite malformed....
I propose (and may even volunteer) to make a new version of the MCRinstaller rpm using CMake - which should fix this issue...