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How to update crontab for a non-root user on Solaris non-interactively?

I would like to update crontab entries for a non-root user for an application which gets installed as OpenPKG RPM package. Currently I have this in the %post section of my .spec file: # # Set up the 'app' user's crontab. # Marker lines are used to…
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Mock build system error: sh: ruby: command not found

I am trying to build a RPM using the mock build system. However, the shell in the mock environment cannot seem to find the ruby command. I run in to a build error: sh: ruby: command not found I can see that ruby is installed in the mock environment…
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RPM Spec files: Set %config files from a list of files

Example snippet of a SPEC file: ... %install unzip $RPM_SOURCE_DIR/APPLICATION-%{version}.zip -d %{buildroot}/ find %{buildroot} -type f ! -name "*.conf" | awk -F %{buildroot} '{print $2}' > filelist.txt find %{buildroot} -type f -name "*.conf"…
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Get a rpm subpackage to be installed with an update

As part of my internship task, I've to deploy OpenVPN clients on around 60-70 client devices that run CentOS (which reside on private networks and cannot be accessed directly). I'm quite new to package management. I've updated the already existing…
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Can I run for loop over %files directive in the .spec file?

I am writing a spec file which creates multiple packages. Can I use a for loop over %files directive with different names, like this: for name in {package1, package2, package3} ; do %files -n $name %attr(644, root, root)…
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RPM .spec file and versioning

I have a .spec file in the /root/rpmbuild/SPECS directory and I have a Version file in the /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES directory. The Version file contain a version number similar as 1.4.5, how can I take it into the .spec file Version: tag? We are…
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How should I provide a replacement for a package in yum?

I'm writing a spec file to replace a yum package with one from our own repository. The new package will be a drop-in replacement for the original. I thought the best way to do it would be to give the spec file an identical Conflicts and Provides…
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Is the lmdb-devel package necessary for installing the cfengine on RHEL v.7 via an RPM .spec file?

I have a problem when I try to build from my spec file. I run this: rpmbuild -ba newpackage.spec I see a great deal of output. It ends with these lines: configure: error: Cannot find Lightning MDB error: Bad exit status from…
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rpm package conflicts with itself in yum

I prepared custom package platform-6-1.2.3-1.x86_64. I want it to be conflicting with every OTHER plat-6 package installed in the system. Files of the package are not conflicting with the others plat-6 packages. So I filled in spec file with: Name:…
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In an RPM spec file, when a file isn't found, how to find out which %files line is at fault?

I'm working with a very macro-heavy RPM spec file, and when building it's producing an error I can't seem to track down: File not found: /var/tmp/pkgnamehere/mockbuild/usr/com/pgsql (I've replaced the full package buildroot path with "pkgnamehere"…
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Building debuginfo RPM at alternate prefix

I have an RPM that I'm building to install at an alternate root via %define _prefix /home/other/root This works fine for the binary package. The -debuginfo package, however, still lists all of its files as being in /usr/lib/debug and /usr/src/debug…
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Make yum not installing dependancies if main package failed

I have 3 packages corepkg, corepkg-optB and corepkg-optC. corepkg-optC depends on corepkg-optB, corepkg-optB depends on corepkg. I've created a repo of these 3 packages. When I run yum install corepkg-optC, and corepkg failed, yum installs…
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Proper way to package a NodeJS application with rpmbuild

I have created my first rpm package for a NodeJS app which is ran as a systemd service. Since I do not want to package the node_modules folder with the rpm (AFAIK npm install is system/node version dependent so it could create some other issues?) I…
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