Re: [Ltib] LTIB on Gentoo

[Ken Gilmer]

Awesome!  Good work Stuart.  I've confirmed this has worked for me.   
I'll check into incorporating this fix into the Gentoo ebuild for rpm.

Thanks
Ken

On Feb 6, 2007, at 12:45 PM, Stuart Hughes wrote:

> Hi Ken,
>
> It took a bit of digging, mostly because installing gentoo was a  
> bit of
> a challenge (no one seems to know the later VMware installs need the
> "BusLogic SCSI Driver" in the Gentoo kernel config).
>
> Anyway, it's either an rpm problem, or a problem in the way Gentoo
> builds rpmbuild (I suspect the latter).  Either way, what is wrong is
> that Gentoo does not install (or build) the
> file /usr/lib/rpm/magic.mgc .  So when rpmbuild runs the %Files  
> section,
> it silently dies with a SEGV (which is what ltib is catching).
>
> The work around that I found that seems to work is:
>
> # file -C -m  /usr/share/misc/file/magic
> # cp magic.mgc /usr/lib/rpm
>
> Once you've done that, as you rnormal user:
>
> $ rm -rf /tmp/rpm*
> $ ./ltib
>
> And it should build and install ltib for you.
>
> If anyone is Gentoo savvy, maybe you could report this issue to the
> Gentoo mailing list.
>
> Regards, Stuart
>
>
> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 17:00 +0000, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> > Hi Ken,
> >
> > The Gentoo discussion was off-list, but basically it was just a minor
> > tweak to the detection of libstdc++-devel. There wasn't anything  
> > else.
> >
> > You could print out the version of $ec, just a
> >    print "returned ec = $ec\n";
> > would do the trick. Not sure what that would show.
> >
> > I'm currently trying (and having a hard time) to install gentoo  
> > 2006.1
> > in a VMware environment.  I'll let you know how I get on.  Hopefully
> > once I've got it booting properly (I need to rebuild with scsi  
> > enabled)
> > I can try to track this issue down (if I can re-create it).
> >
> > Regards, Stuart
> >
> > On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 11:31 -0500, Ken Gilmer wrote:
> > > Hey Stuart,
> > >
> > > > I'm not sure how to diagnose this without a gentoo machine.  I'll
> > > > google
> > > > for a while and see if I can figure out something.  If you have any
> > > > ideas or theories, that would be good to hear.  BTW: other  
> > > > people are
> > > > using LTIB on Gentoo (not sure which version), so it should be
> > > > fixable.
> > >
> > >    Could you point me to somewhere that has a discussion/dialog  
> > > about
> > > getting Gentoo working with LTIB?  I've looked in the mailing lists
> > > and done a little googling but can't find anything.  I'll also post
> > > to the Gentoo forums to see if anything pops up.  In general, how
> > > does one go about debugging this sort of issue?  If I were to begin,
> > > what would you recommend in terms of approach and/or tools?   
> > > Would it
> > > be useful to just print out the value of $ec?  I'm certainly no pro
> > > at perl but I can muck my way around.