Xapian devel - Sep 2010 - Fwd: errors with rpm instructions

Ben Williams wrote:
> The instructions for RHEL5 at http://xapian.org/download have a problem.
The xapian repo file points to non-existent directories.
Looks to me like the repo files aren't being generated correctly; it has
$basearch instead of (currently) i386. (RHEL4 is affected also.)

J

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 James Aylett
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:11:27AM +0100, James Aylett
wrote:
> Ben Williams wrote:
> 
> > The instructions for RHEL5 at http://xapian.org/download have a
problem.
> > The xapian repo file points to non-existent directories.
> 
> Looks to me like the repo files aren't being generated correctly; it
has
> $basearch instead of (currently) i386. (RHEL4 is affected also.)
I'm no expert, but I think $basearch there is correct (or else you
couldn't
put RPMs built for different archs in the same repo).

I suspect Ben's problem is that he isn't running i386 and those are the
only RPMs there currently.  So his machine expands $basearch to x86_64
(or whatever) which isn't there.

You should be able to build from the SRPMs (or even just the source tarballs)
using rpmbuild.

Cheers,
    Olly