rpmbuild: compiles without error but does not install

[Ranjan Maitra]

Hi,

I have had issues with batti for quite a while, and I came across battray as a replacement (and it works). So, I was trying to put it together as a rpm and perhaps and get it approved for Fedora.

I have created the following spec file available here:

https://paste.fedoraproject.org/442597/50173214

It compiles without error. However, when I try to install the rpm using

$sudo dnf install ../RPMS/noarch/battray-2.2-1.fc24.noarch.rpm

I get:

Last metadata expiration check: 0:15:05 ago on Mon Oct  3 08:21:04 2016.
Error: nothing provides /bin/python3 needed by battray-2.2-1.fc24.noarch
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages)

The addition of '--allowerasing' does not change anything other than to remove the suggestion.

Any suggestions as to what is wrong with my spec file?

Best wishes,
Ranjan

[Rick Stevens]

On 10/03/2016 06:38 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have had issues with batti for quite a while, and I came across battray as a replacement (and it works). So, I was trying to put it together as a rpm and perhaps and get it approved for Fedora.
>
> I have created the following spec file available here:
>
> https://paste.fedoraproject.org/442597/50173214
>
> It compiles without error. However, when I try to install the rpm using
>
> $sudo dnf install ../RPMS/noarch/battray-2.2-1.fc24.noarch.rpm
>
> I get:
>
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:15:05 ago on Mon Oct  3 08:21:04 2016.
> Error: nothing provides /bin/python3 needed by battray-2.2-1.fc24.noarch
> (try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages)
>
> The addition of '--allowerasing' does not change anything other than to remove the suggestion.
>
> Any suggestions as to what is wrong with my spec file?

It looks like you have an install dependency on /bin/python3 but it's
not installed (check "ls /bin/python3"). That file is provided by the
python3-3.5.1-17.fc24.x86_64 RPM (on my updated machine).

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[stan]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 08:38:01 -0500
Ranjan Maitra  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have had issues with batti for quite a while, and I came across
> battray as a replacement (and it works). So, I was trying to put it
> together as a rpm and perhaps and get it approved for Fedora.
>
> I have created the following spec file available here:
>
> https://paste.fedoraproject.org/442597/50173214
>
> It compiles without error. However, when I try to install the rpm
> using
>
> $sudo dnf install ../RPMS/noarch/battray-2.2-1.fc24.noarch.rpm
>
> I get:
>
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:15:05 ago on Mon Oct  3 08:21:04
> 2016. Error: nothing provides /bin/python3 needed by
> battray-2.2-1.fc24.noarch (try to add '--allowerasing' to command
> line to replace conflicting packages)
>
> The addition of '--allowerasing' does not change anything other than
> to remove the suggestion.
>
> Any suggestions as to what is wrong with my spec file?

Can this be correct?
Provides:       python3-staplelib = %{version}-%{release}

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 09:34:39 -0700 stan  wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 08:38:01 -0500
> Ranjan Maitra  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have had issues with batti for quite a while, and I came across
> > battray as a replacement (and it works). So, I was trying to put it
> > together as a rpm and perhaps and get it approved for Fedora.
> >
> > I have created the following spec file available here:
> >
> > https://paste.fedoraproject.org/442597/50173214
> >
> > It compiles without error. However, when I try to install the rpm
> > using
> >
> > $sudo dnf install ../RPMS/noarch/battray-2.2-1.fc24.noarch.rpm
> >
> > I get:
> >
> > Last metadata expiration check: 0:15:05 ago on Mon Oct  3 08:21:04
> > 2016. Error: nothing provides /bin/python3 needed by
> > battray-2.2-1.fc24.noarch (try to add '--allowerasing' to command
> > line to replace conflicting packages)
> >
> > The addition of '--allowerasing' does not change anything other than
> > to remove the suggestion.
> >
> > Any suggestions as to what is wrong with my spec file?
>
> Can this be correct?
> Provides:       python3-staplelib = %{version}-%{release}

Sorry, this is an error which I found after I posted (and still went on looking).

But it does not resolve the problem. I still get the same error.

Here is the modified specfile:

$ fpaste battray.spec 
Uploading (1.6KiB)...
http://paste.fedoraproject.org/442681/51382314/ -> https://paste.fedoraproject.org/442681/51382314

Thanks!
Ranjan
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[Ranjan Maitra]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 09:30:44 -0700 Rick Stevens  wrote:
> On 10/03/2016 06:38 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have had issues with batti for quite a while, and I came across battray as a replacement (and it works). So, I was trying to put it together as a rpm and perhaps and get it approved for Fedora.
> >
> > I have created the following spec file available here:
> >
> > https://paste.fedoraproject.org/442597/50173214
> >
> > It compiles without error. However, when I try to install the rpm using
> >
> > $sudo dnf install ../RPMS/noarch/battray-2.2-1.fc24.noarch.rpm
> >
> > I get:
> >
> > Last metadata expiration check: 0:15:05 ago on Mon Oct  3 08:21:04 2016.
> > Error: nothing provides /bin/python3 needed by battray-2.2-1.fc24.noarch
> > (try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages)
> >
> > The addition of '--allowerasing' does not change anything other than to remove the suggestion.
> >
> > Any suggestions as to what is wrong with my spec file?
>
> It looks like you have an install dependency on /bin/python3 but it's
> not installed (check "ls /bin/python3"). That file is provided by the
> python3-3.5.1-17.fc24.x86_64 RPM (on my updated machine).

Rick,

Thanks! But I have a

Requires: python3

Is that not enough?

Besides, python3 and python3-devel is also installed and updated on my machine.

Ranjan
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[Ranjan Maitra]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 09:34:39 -0700 stan  wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 08:38:01 -0500
> Ranjan Maitra  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have had issues with batti for quite a while, and I came across
> > battray as a replacement (and it works). So, I was trying to put it
> > together as a rpm and perhaps and get it approved for Fedora.
> >
> > I have created the following spec file available here:
> >
> > https://paste.fedoraproject.org/442597/50173214
> >
> > It compiles without error. However, when I try to install the rpm
> > using
> >
> > $sudo dnf install ../RPMS/noarch/battray-2.2-1.fc24.noarch.rpm
> >
> > I get:
> >
> > Last metadata expiration check: 0:15:05 ago on Mon Oct  3 08:21:04
> > 2016. Error: nothing provides /bin/python3 needed by
> > battray-2.2-1.fc24.noarch (try to add '--allowerasing' to command
> > line to replace conflicting packages)
> >
> > The addition of '--allowerasing' does not change anything other than
> > to remove the suggestion.
> >
> > Any suggestions as to what is wrong with my spec file?
>
> Can this be correct?
> Provides:       python3-staplelib = %{version}-%{release}

Sorry, here is the corrected

$ fpaste battray.spec
Uploading (1.6KiB)...
http://paste.fedoraproject.org/442684/51425714/ -> https://paste.fedoraproject.org/442684/51425714
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[stan]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 12:04:31 -0500
Ranjan Maitra  wrote:
> Sorry, here is the corrected
>
> $ fpaste battray.spec
> Uploading (1.6KiB)...
> http://paste.fedoraproject.org/442684/51425714/ ->
> https://paste.fedoraproject.org/442684/51425714

I think this is still wrong.  It might not be the problem, but I doubt
it is the right formula.
Provides:       %{_bindir}/bin/%{version}-%{release}

I think it should be 
Provides:       %{_bindir}/%{name}.%{version}-%{release}

I have no more ideas as to the cause.  Maybe you should ask on devel?
Or check bugzilla to see if there is a known bug doing this?

[Rick Stevens]

On 10/03/2016 10:04 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 09:34:39 -0700 stan  wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 08:38:01 -0500
> > Ranjan Maitra  wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have had issues with batti for quite a while, and I came across
> > > battray as a replacement (and it works). So, I was trying to put it
> > > together as a rpm and perhaps and get it approved for Fedora.
> > >
> > > I have created the following spec file available here:
> > >
> > > https://paste.fedoraproject.org/442597/50173214
> > >
> > > It compiles without error. However, when I try to install the rpm
> > > using
> > >
> > > $sudo dnf install ../RPMS/noarch/battray-2.2-1.fc24.noarch.rpm
> > >
> > > I get:
> > >
> > > Last metadata expiration check: 0:15:05 ago on Mon Oct  3 08:21:04
> > > 2016. Error: nothing provides /bin/python3 needed by
> > > battray-2.2-1.fc24.noarch (try to add '--allowerasing' to command
> > > line to replace conflicting packages)
> > >
> > > The addition of '--allowerasing' does not change anything other than
> > > to remove the suggestion.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions as to what is wrong with my spec file?
> >
> > Can this be correct?
> > Provides:       python3-staplelib = %{version}-%{release}
>
> Sorry, here is the corrected
>
> $ fpaste battray.spec
> Uploading (1.6KiB)...
> http://paste.fedoraproject.org/442684/51425714/ -> https://paste.fedoraproject.org/442684/51425714

Looking at that, I'm wondering if your line 31 in the "%install"
section should read:

/bin/python3 setup.py install --prefix=%{_prefix} --root=%{buildroot}

As it is now, it's depending on a relative path that gets expanded to
/bin/python3, but if it's in a chroot (and I can't recall if rpm does
a chroot to a working directory) then the chroot probably WON'T have
a /bin/python3 in it. A literal leading slash overrides that, I think.

Try the install again using "rpm -i --test -vv" (NOT dnf) and look at
the output. You might see something.
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[Ranjan Maitra]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 10:44:41 -0700 stan  wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 12:04:31 -0500
> Ranjan Maitra  wrote:
> > Sorry, here is the corrected
> >
> > $ fpaste battray.spec
> > Uploading (1.6KiB)...
> > http://paste.fedoraproject.org/442684/51425714/ ->
> > https://paste.fedoraproject.org/442684/51425714
>
> I think this is still wrong.  It might not be the problem, but I doubt
> it is the right formula.
> Provides:       %{_bindir}/bin/%{version}-%{release}
>
> I think it should be 
> Provides:       %{_bindir}/%{name}.%{version}-%{release}

Yes, you are right, sorry.
> I have no more ideas as to the cause.  Maybe you should ask on devel?

Yes, I guess I should ask there, though I was not sure that this qualified as a devel question so I thought that I would ask here.
Maybe someone may still have ideas so I will post the corrected spec here:

$ fpaste battray.specUploading (1.6KiB)...
http://paste.fedoraproject.org/442704/55183281/ -> https://paste.fedoraproject.org/442704/55183281

Thanks,
Ranjan
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[Ahmad Samir]

On 3 October 2016 at 15:38, Ranjan Maitra  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have had issues with batti for quite a while, and I came across battray as a replacement (and it works). So, I was trying to put it together as a rpm and perhaps and get it approved for Fedora.
>
> I have created the following spec file available here:
>
> https://paste.fedoraproject.org/442597/50173214
>
> It compiles without error. However, when I try to install the rpm using
>
> $sudo dnf install ../RPMS/noarch/battray-2.2-1.fc24.noarch.rpm
>
> I get:
>
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:15:05 ago on Mon Oct  3 08:21:04 2016.
> Error: nothing provides /bin/python3 needed by battray-2.2-1.fc24.noarch
> (try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages)
>
> The addition of '--allowerasing' does not change anything other than to remove the suggestion.
>
> Any suggestions as to what is wrong with my spec file?

Try:
%install
%{_python3} setup.py install --prefix=%{_prefix} --root=%{buildroot}

%{_python3} expands to /usr/bin/python3; I think on your system
python3 in "python3 setup.py...." resolves to /bin/python3 which
explains the wrong requires added to the package.

Try examining your $PATH env var, maybe /bin/ is precedes /usr/bin/ on
your system?

--
Ahmad Samir

[SOLVED] rpmbuild: compiles without error but does not install

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 11:06:46 -0700 Rick Stevens  wrote:
> Looking at that, I'm wondering if your line 31 in the "%install"
> section should read:
>
> /bin/python3 setup.py install --prefix=%{_prefix} --root=%{buildroot}
>
> As it is now, it's depending on a relative path that gets expanded to
> /bin/python3, but if it's in a chroot (and I can't recall if rpm does
> a chroot to a working directory) then the chroot probably WON'T have
> a /bin/python3 in it. A literal leading slash overrides that, I think.

You are correct -- the right way of putting this in should have been:

%{__python3} setup.py install --prefix=%{_prefix} --root=%{buildroot}

Here is the current (corrected) version of battray.spec for the records, where the rpm installs.

$ fpaste battray.spec
Uploading (1.6KiB)...
http://paste.fedoraproject.org/442710/55191481/ -> https://paste.fedoraproject.org/442710/55191481

The tar.gz does not come with an explicit license file. I have asked upstream to put this in, and after that, I will submit to Fedora.

Thanks again to you and to Stan for all your help!! It is much appreciated.

Best wishes,
Ranjan

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 20:24:05 +0200 Ahmad Samir  wrote:
> On 3 October 2016 at 15:38, Ranjan Maitra  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have had issues with batti for quite a while, and I came across battray as a replacement (and it works). So, I was trying to put it together as a rpm and perhaps and get it approved for Fedora.
> >
> > I have created the following spec file available here:
> >
> > https://paste.fedoraproject.org/442597/50173214
> >
> > It compiles without error. However, when I try to install the rpm using
> >
> > $sudo dnf install ../RPMS/noarch/battray-2.2-1.fc24.noarch.rpm
> >
> > I get:
> >
> > Last metadata expiration check: 0:15:05 ago on Mon Oct  3 08:21:04 2016.
> > Error: nothing provides /bin/python3 needed by battray-2.2-1.fc24.noarch
> > (try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages)
> >
> > The addition of '--allowerasing' does not change anything other than to remove the suggestion.
> >
> > Any suggestions as to what is wrong with my spec file?
>
> Try:
> %install
> %{_python3} setup.py install --prefix=%{_prefix} --root=%{buildroot}
>
> %{_python3} expands to /usr/bin/python3; I think on your system
> python3 in "python3 setup.py...." resolves to /bin/python3 which
> explains the wrong requires added to the package.
>
> Try examining your $PATH env var, maybe /bin/ is precedes /usr/bin/ on
> your system?

Ahmad,

Thank you for this. This was it.

best wishes,
Ranjan