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

[Michael Hall]

Yes that looks like the answer.

This page succinctly describes the problem:
http://www.lysium.de/blog/index.php?/archives/2-rpmbuild-disable-automatic-dependency-analysis.html

I solved the problem by using "AutoReqProv: no" in the header.

This may not be optimal but it works for now.

Ideally, EditShare (Lightworks developers) will release an RPM soon (in
addition to current DEB), or even the source (as promised).

Either way, I think Lightworks is important enough for a bit of faffing
about. It is a viable competitor for Final Cut Pro, Premiere, Sony Vegas
etc.

www.lwks.com


On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 3:59 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth <
tchollingsworth at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Michael Hall <mike at mjhall.org> 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.
>
> Wait, the libraries in question are provided along with the lightworks
> package?  If so, these private libraries should probably *not* go into
> the system path, and in fact this probably won't even work because the
> program most likely hardcodes the location of the libraries instead of
> checking the system path.
>
> If I understand you correctly, your only problem is RPM's dependency
> generator writes out some bogus requires from these private libraries.
>  That's easy to fix:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering
>
> > Apparently Debian doesn't use the /usr/lib64 location for 64 bit
> libraries.
> > 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?
>
> -T.C.
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