anyone build rpm packages in AIX?

[exsnafu]

ok, I must be doing something really stupid here but for the life of me I cannot figure this out and haven't been able to find any mailing lists/forums that pertain to rpm.

I'm in the process of attempting to install a new version of curl because after an openssl update the old RPM fails with libssl/libcrypto linker issues. i'd like an rpm for distribution to many servers.

I download the curl source which comes with its own nice AIX specific spec file that I copy into /opt/freeware/src/packages/SPECS/ and then perform an rpm -vv -bb curl.spec

it goes through the prep, the build and the install. the curl binaries/docs etc are all installed into /var/opt/freeware/ as it should and then the package build stage executes, it lists the files, what provides and what requires for each package, returns exit 0 for each step package(curl and curl-devel) and then exits with a return code of 1 but nothing in the verbose output to indicate a reason?

fantastic!

no rpm package is in /opt/freeware/src/packages/RPMS/

now, I thought this may be just something with the curl spec but in fact I've tried with cups since I had a spec file for that sitting around and the exact same thing, gets 100% through(near as I can tell) and then bails out with an inexplicable return code of 1 and fails to actually put a package out there.

am I missing some critical little step?


the last few lines of rpm -vv -bb curl.spec:

Processing files: curl-devel-7.18.2-1ssl
D: File 0: 0100755 root.root /opt/freeware/bin/curl-config
File not found by glob: /var/opt/freeware/tmp/curl-7.18.2-root/opt/freeware/man/man1/curl-config.1*
File not found by glob: /var/opt/freeware/tmp/curl-7.18.2-root/opt/freeware/man/man3/*
D: File 1: 0100644 root.root /opt/freeware/include/curl/curl.h
D: File 2: 0100644 root.root /opt/freeware/include/curl/curlver.h
D: File 3: 0100644 root.root /opt/freeware/include/curl/easy.h
D: File 4: 0100644 root.root /opt/freeware/include/curl/mprintf.h
D: File 5: 0100644 root.root /opt/freeware/include/curl/multi.h
D: File 6: 0100644 root.root /opt/freeware/include/curl/stdcheaders.h
D: File 7: 0100644 root.root /opt/freeware/include/curl/typecheck-gcc.h
D: File 8: 0100644 root.root /opt/freeware/include/curl/types.h
D: File 9: 0100755 root.root /opt/freeware/lib/libcurl.la
D: File 10: 0120777 root.root /usr/bin/curl-config
D: File 11: 0120777 root.root /usr/include/curl
Executing(%doc): /bin/sh -e /var/opt/freeware/tmp/rpm-tmp.26523
+ umask 022
+ cd /opt/freeware/src/packages/BUILD
+ cd curl-7.18.2
+ DOCDIR=/var/opt/freeware/tmp/curl-7.18.2-root/opt/freeware/doc/curl-devel-7.18.2
+ export DOCDIR
+ rm -rf /var/opt/freeware/tmp/curl-7.18.2-root/opt/freeware/doc/curl-devel-7.18.2
+ /usr/bin/mkdir -p /var/opt/freeware/tmp/curl-7.18.2-root/opt/freeware/doc/curl-devel-7.18.2
+ cp -pr docs/BINDINGS docs/INTERNALS docs/LICENSE-MIXING /var/opt/freeware/tmp/curl-7.18.2-root/opt/freeware/doc/curl-devel-7.18.2
+ exit 0
D: File 12: 0240755 root.root /opt/freeware/doc/curl-devel-7.18.2
D: File 13: 0100644 root.root /opt/freeware/doc/curl-devel-7.18.2/BINDINGS
D: File 14: 0100644 root.root /opt/freeware/doc/curl-devel-7.18.2/INTERNALS
D: File 15: 0100644 root.root /opt/freeware/doc/curl-devel-7.18.2/LICENSE-MIXING
Provides: curl-devel
Requires: openssl >= 0.9.5 curl = 7.18.2
[root@:/opt/freeware/src/packages/SPECS]: echo $?
1

 

[exsnafu]

nevermind, I just wasn't looking hard enough and once I fixed 3 of the "file not found" errors that it threw looking for man pages it went cleanly.

 

[KenCunningham]

Glad your efforts lived up to your name exsnafu! Thanks for posting back.

I want to be good, is that not enough?