Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

["Bob S." <usr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 04 April 2004 04:07 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Saturday 03 April 2004 07.18, Bob S. wrote:
> > OK Anders, like the "fake rpm" idea. But have no idea how one does
> > that.
>
> Something like this
>
> ------------------------<cut>---------------------------------------

> save that in /usr/src/packages/SPECS/ as fake.spec and "rpmbuild
> -bb /usr/src/packages/SPECS/fake.spec"
>
> That will build an empty rpm that will convince rpm that you have
> libexif.so.9. If you have other things you want to tell rpm about,
> just add more "Provides" lines

Thanks Anders,
Followed your instructions. When I went to build the rpm I got the 
following message:

linux:/ # rpm -bb /usr/src/packages/SPECS/fake.spec
Group field must be present in package: (main package)
linux:/ #

Don't know what the group field would be. Just a little more help would 
be really appreciated.  Note that I am running 8.2 and don't have 
rpmbuild.   Thanks,

Bob S.

>
> I'm sure there are other ways of doing it as well. This is the
> simplest I can think of. Other suggestions are welcome