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RPM – Fixing ‘Ancient’ Source Rebuilds..

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I had occasion to install an ancient GTK+ app, recently, and had to use # rpmbuild –rebuild xxxxx.src.rpm to (re)create some old RPMs from source.. I got the following error: /home/rgadsdon/rpmbuild/BUILD/php_gtk-1.0.2/main/php_gtk_object.c: In function ‘php_gtk_args_from_hash’: /home/rgadsdon/rpmbuild/BUILD/php_gtk-1.0.2/main/php_gtk_object.c:410:4: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security] php_error(E_WARNING, buf); ^ So, I needed to remove the –Werror=format-security parameter … Continue reading →

Dreamplug and Yum – Still Problems, after all these Years..

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Ever since first running yum on the Dreamplug, over a year ago, I have had intermittent problems with yum/rpm ‘hanging’ for no apparent reason.    There were no errors reported, and – for a time – everything just seemed to work OK.. Now I have just attempted to do an install of xfce4 on the system, with approximately … Continue reading →

Turbo-Pi? – Not so Fast, Now…

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Well, the ‘Turbo’ Pi overclocking might be great for playing games (Quake 3, anyone?) but regular apps don’t like it. After applying the Turbo 1GHz overclock, I immediately had problems with yum / rpm segfaulting when run, so reverted to the standard 700MHz again, and all is well..     Maybe a little less overclock, might be more stable? … Continue reading →

Fedora 17 on the Pi!

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After applying the SD Card disk formatting and ‘optimisation’ mentioned previously, I decided to attempt to bring the version of Fedora (14) up to date.. The Fedora 17 Pi ‘respin’ is due sometime in May, but I decided – based on my experiences with Fedora 17 on the Dreamplug – to try to ‘hack’ F17 from the … Continue reading →

Another Essential Kernel Config..

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Another kernel configuration option that used to be just that – optional – but is now essential for ‘newer’ Fedora systems.. If you see Error unpacking rpm package glibc-common-n.n-nn.xxxx error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/libexec/pt_chown: cpio: cap_set_file On some yum/rpm updates (with httpd, as well) this can cause the actual update to fail, but yum/rpm … Continue reading →