Build RPM's for SLES10 on SLES11

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLE Software Developer Kit (SDK)
1

Hi,

after long struggling I’ve figured out how to build RPMs on
SLES11-x86_64 without the OpenSuSE-Buildserver. I build RPMs for
SLES11-i586 with

Code:

linux32 build --rpms Path-to-Pool:Path-to-SDK:Localpool --arch i586 mypackage.spec

But how do I build for SLES10? Everey document I’ve found says I should
use the environment variable BUILD_DIST, but according to ‘Bug #359846’
(https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=359846) this variable is
deprecated and ignored.

If I try to set BUILD_DIST=SLE-10 and the rpm-path (via --rpms) to our
repositories of SLES10, I get a lot of expansion errors, and it seems
that build tries to build SLES11-RPMs (e.g. gcc43):

Code:

initializing /usr/src/packages/build.tmp/.srcfiles.cache …
/usr/lib/build/createrpmdeps /mnt/install/SLES10-SP2-Pool/sles-10-i586
/usr/lib/build/createrpmdeps /mnt/install/SLE10-SDK-SP2-Pool/sles-10-i586
expanding package dependencies…
expansion error
nothing provides libbz2-1
nothing provides libgcc43
nothing provides libncurses5
nothing provides libreadline5
nothing provides libselinux1
nothing provides gcc43
nothing provides gettext-runtime
nothing provides libmpfr1
nothing provides cpp43
nothing provides gettext-tools
nothing provides libbz2-devel
nothing provides libdb-4_5
nothing provides libstdc++43
nothing provides libvolume_id1
nothing provides linux-kernel-headers
nothing provides login
nothing provides libgomp43
nothing provides libuuid1
nothing provides terminfo-base
nothing provides brp-check-suse
nothing provides post-build-checks
nothing provides rpmlint-Factory

Can someone point me in the right direction? Is there a complete and
up-to-date documentation how to build RPM’s with and for SLE products?

Thanks in advance, Maurice

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I struggle with the same issue.

I have been able to make it work through various tinkering. I think the
last time I was successful, I had been playing around with different
versions of the /usr/bin/build script until I found one that worked.

I’m working on this again today, if I’m able to make it work, I’ll post
back here.

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Found it. The way I have been doing it is to install this version of
build on the SLES11 box. Note that I have NOT tried building SLES11 rpms
with this.

Name : build Relocations: (not
relocatable)
Version : 2009.07.27 Vendor: openSUSE Build
Service
Release : 3.1 Build Date: Mon Aug 10
10:31:44 2009
Install Date: Mon Mar 15 10:24:16 2010 Build Host: build20
Group : Development/Tools/Building Source RPM:
build-2009.07.27-3.1.src.rpm
Size : 415621 License: GPL v2 or
later
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed Sep 23 04:21:19 2009, Key ID
2455afca3d7042ad
Summary : A Script to Build SUSE Linux RPMs
Description :
This package provides a script for building RPMs for SUSE Linux in a
chroot environment.
Distribution: Base:build:arm

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Thanks for the replay. I will try it out and report here.

Greetings Maurice

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