Re: [Ltib] Texinfo build / troubles with rpm database?

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Franz,

There are 2 separate issues here.  The one with complaints about the 
rpmdb can safely be ignored wrt the rpm-fs package.  This occurs on 
Ubuntu 9.10 as the rpm it comes with has no database at all initialised 
and you get these 2 messages during the host clobber checks, however the 
checks are still working correctly (and not an issue for rpm-fs in any 
case).  If you're bothered by this message you could do rpm --initdb as 
Giorgio suggests, but this is not necessary.

So far as texinfo goes, that's a separate problem.  You'd need to show 
more of the error messages.  I suspect this is a problem with the 
particular (Freescale) BSP you're installing as I tried today using 
Savannah CVS and the install works just fine (after I fixed the 
--force-debian flag issue with Ubuntu 9.10).

Regards, Stuart


Franz TRIERWEILER wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I know that troubles about building texinfo have already been discussed 
> a while ago (someone named Nirmala got a similar issue) but I would like 
> to submit a strange behaviour I noticed this morning on an Ubuntu 9.10 
> host distro on which I am trying to install a fresh LTIB provided by 
> Freescale (PDK 1.6). This LTIB works fine on an Ubuntu 09.04 but that's 
> still hard to get something run on a 09.10.
>
> When trying to build texinfo, LTIB fails. There seems to be a big mess 
> in the rpm local database.
>
> Here is a tailed extract of the host_config.log file:
>
>
> address@hidden:/opt/freescale/ltib/usr/src/rpm/BUILD$ tail / 
> home/franz/ltib/host_config.log
>
> Executing(--clean): /bin/sh -e /home/franz/ltib/tmp/rpm-tmp.nAtpSP
> + umask 022
> + cd /tmp/rpm-franz/BUILD
> + rm -rf rpm-4.0.4
> + exit 0
> Build time for rpm-fs: 537 seconds
>
> error: cannot open Name index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
> error: cannot open Name index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) 
> sudo rpm --root / --dbpath /tmp/rpm-franz/rpmdb -e --allmatches -- 
> nodeps --define '_tmppath /home/franz/ltib/tmp' rpm-fs 2>/dev/null
>
> After trying a new ./ltib build here I get this:
>
> address@hidden:/opt/freescale/ltib/usr/src/rpm/BUILD$ tail / 
> home/franz/ltib/host_config.log
>
> Started: Tue Dec  1 07:21:55 2009
> Ended:   Tue Dec  1 07:31:23 2009
> Elapsed: 568 seconds
>
> These packages failed to build:
> texinfo
>
> Build Failed
>
> Before starting to read tons of documents about rpm database management 
> and how to fix the database, I would like to know if someone already 
> faced the same issue.
>
> Franz