[SOLVED] knocking software

elysch · Post by **elysch** » 2012/04/07 23:55:07

Hi.

Has anybody been able to find knock RPM's for CentOS6 already?

There is previous thread talking exactly about the same thing [url=http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=thread&order=ASC&topic_id=35592&forum=55]here[/url], but there isn't a definitive solution.

I found a log file saying someone created them since january at:
http://pkgs.repoforge.org/knock/_buildlogs/

But culdn't find the actual RPM at:
http://pkgs.repoforge.org/knock/

Maybe it is there, but doesn't show because of wrong filesystem permissions.

Does anybody knows how to contact pkgs.repoforge.org administrator in order to ask him/her for help?
I haven't been able to.

In the meantime, I tryed downloading the source RPM [url=http://pkgs.repoforge.org/knock/knock-0.5-1.rf.src.rpm]from here[/url] and build it, but it doesn't work "out of the box".

I just executed:
[code]rpmbuild --rebuild knock-0.5-1.rf.src.rpm[/code]

But at the end I get the following error:
[quote]
gcc -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -g -Wall -pedantic -fno-exceptions -D_GNU_SOURCE -I. -o src/knockd.o -c src/knockd.c
src/knockd.c:134: error: 'PATH_MAX' undeclared here (not in a function)
src/knockd.c: In function 'parseconfig':
src/knockd.c:438: warning: unused variable 'line'
src/knockd.c: In function 'get_next_one_time_sequence':
src/knockd.c:695: warning: unused variable 'line'
src/knockd.c: In function 'sniff':
src/knockd.c:1386: warning: unused variable 'parsed_stop_cmd'
src/knockd.c:1385: warning: unused variable 'parsed_start_cmd'
make: *** [src/knockd.o] Error 1
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.6oqYpj (%build)

RPM build errors:
user dag does not exist - using root
group dag does not exist - using root
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.6oqYpj (%build)
[/quote]

So I'm stuck. Maybe there is a very simple solution to fix thiese errors (I hope), but I don't know why I couldn't find it.

Any help will be really appreciated.

Ely.

Crunch · Post by **Crunch** » 2012/04/08 00:18:26

Hi

Thanks for posting.

If you can't find those packages on the usual repos, then they have been yanked by [url=http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-d29a2b7e61ffc544973098f9dd49fe4663efba50]TUV[/url]

You could probably get it working eventually. Looks like you're missing headers. If you would like me to help you with with this email at numbercruncher234@gmail.com

Post by **TrevorH** » 2012/04/08 01:36:40

Your error looks suspiciously like the one that the patch in my post to the other thread fixes. Did you include that patch in your build?

elysch · Post by **elysch** » 2012/04/08 05:54:20

Well.

I don't know why I didn't try a solution mentioned [url=http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=thread&topic_id=35592&forum=55&post_id=153798]here[/url] by trevorH.

I thought it was a very complicated thing to do, but I simply created a diff file and modified the spec file (as said by trevorH) in the "rpmbuild" directory created in /root/ after my unsuccessfull first attempt.

After that I executed:
[code]rpmbuild -bb rpmbuild/SPECS/knock.spec[/code]

And voilá, it created two RPMs:

[code]
[user@localhost ~]# ls -la rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/
total 84
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 7 19:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 7 19:07 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31664 Apr 7 19:07 knock-0.5-1.rf.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42516 Apr 7 19:07 knock-debuginfo-0.5-1.rf.x86_64.rpm
[user@localhost ~]#
[/code]

After that, I was able to install the first one.
As far as I can see, it works just fine.

Hope this instructions help someone else.

Ely.

elysch · Post by **elysch** » 2012/04/08 06:10:19

Thank you Crunch and TrevorH for your promt response.

TrevorH:
As you can see in my previous post, I don't know why I didn't see the relation between the error I was getting and the instructions you posted a couple of months ago.
Who knows.

I'll try to read more carefully from now on.

I still think there should be a way to let the repository mainteiners know the CentOS6 RPMs are missing.

Ely.

pschaff · Post by **pschaff** » 2012/04/08 12:38:31

[quote]
elysch wrote:
Thank you Crunch and TrevorH for your promt response.[/quote]
Thanks for reporting back. Marking this thread [SOLVED] for posterity.

[quote]
I still think there should be a way to let the repository mainteiners know the CentOS6 RPMs are missing.[/quote]
Nothing to tell. CentOS will build only what comes from [url=http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General?highlight=%28TUV%29#head-d29a2b7e61ffc544973098f9dd49fe4663efba50]TUV[/url]. The best bet for getting such packages in a repo is to request them at one or more of the [url=http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories#line-30]3rd party Repositories[/url]

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