Re: [Fedora-packaging] Convert 64bit DEB to RPM - dependency errors

[Michael Hall]

Yes Lightworks is closed source, but important for professional Linux
multimedia users as it has been used to edit many major Hollywood movies.
Good point about /opt.

I'm collecting some info on a Google Sites page and will post again when it
is ready ...


On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de&gt; wrote:

>  On 05/04/2013 05:06 AM, Michael Hall wrote:
>
> > I am attempting to repackage a DEB version of the Lightworks video
> > editor as an RPM for Fedora 18 (x86_64).
> > I have unpacked the DEB file and copied the contents of data.tar.gz
> > (/usr and subdirectories) to my BUILDROOT directory.
> > Then I created a spec file which basically just specifies package info
> > and the %files section.
> > The RPM builds OK but does not install due to dependency errors.
> > The dependencies are all actually in the RPM itself, as the Lightworks
> > DEB package includes its own versions of needed libraries in
> > /usr/lib/lightworks.
> > Obviously, the RPM doesn't know about this.
> > Apparently Debian doesn't use the /usr/lib64 location for 64 bit
> > libraries.
> >
>  Correct. Unless the Debian-packaging is broken, the trick during
>  repackaging x86_64/amd64 binariers would be to move these */lib/* libs into
>  */lib64 for Fedora and *not* to copy them into */lib.
>
>
>   The problem may have something to do with this, or ldconfig or similar.
> > Adding /sbin/ldconfig to a %post section has made no difference.
> > Putting the libraries in either /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 in the RPM also
> > hasn't fixed the issue
> > Any suggestions on how I can resolve this?
> >
>
>  Insufficient information, please provide more details. There are many
>  details which can go wrong in such kind of attempts.
>
>  However, as you seem to be referring to a commercial closed source
>  package, the better question would be why these folks don't package their
>  package to install to somewhere under /opt/.
>
>  Ralf
>
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