[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 at freenet.de> 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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