[Dovecot] Re: Problems with Dovecot 1.0 beta7 rpm form atrpm for RHEL4

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:16:21PM -0400, Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
> Hi,
> I just want to install dovecot 1.0 beta7 from atrpm and noted that it
> depends on a non official dependency.
> 
> If you have RHEL4 (Centos) 4.3 fully updated and you try to install:
> http://dl.atrpms.net/all/dovecot-1.0-0_10.99.beta7.el4.at.i386.rpm
> You get this error:
> # rpm -ivh dovecot-1.0-0_10.99.beta7.el4.at.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>        openssl >= 0.9.7f-4 is needed by 
> dovecot-1.0-0_10.99.beta7.el4.at.i386
> 
> The lates official openssl version for RHEL 4.3 is:
> # rpm -q openssl
> openssl-0.9.7a-43.8

The above is taken from Fedora Core, maybe it is too strict.

> I think I can solve this problem by compiling the src.rpm, but I get 
> this error:
> # rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 --clean 
> dovecot-1.0-0_10.99.beta7.el4.at.src.rpm
> Installing /opt/shares/tmp/dovecot-1.0-0_10.99.beta7.el4.at.src.rpm
> Building target platforms: i686
> Building for target i686
> error: line 4: Tag takes single token only: Release: 0_%atrelease 
> 10.99.beta7
> 
> How can I compile the .src.rpm from atrpm? It seems that there is an 
> error in the spec file:
> 
> This line:
> 
> Release: 0_%atrelease 10.99.beta7
> should it looks like this:
> Release: 0_%{atrelease}10.99.beta7

Use rpmbuild --define 'atrelease() %1.el4.oliver' ...

or similar.


Let us know whether it works, so I can fix the dependecy on openssl.

The quick and dirty way is to install the package with rpm --nodeps,
but that's very dirty (but also very quick ;).
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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