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<h1 align="center">rpm2html/rpmfind FAQ</h1>
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<li><em>How can I upgrade to rpm v4 all rpm v4 packages are not readable by
my installed rpm command</em>
<p>Use rpm-3.05 or rpm-3.06 as an intermediate step, it can read both rpm
v3 and v4</p>
<p>Don't forget to run rpm --rebuilddb immediately after upgrading to
v4</p>
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<li><em>rpmfind-1.2 get signal 11 errors</em>
<p>this seems to happen a lot lately, possibly after the upgrade of the
rpm setup. The most generic solution is to <a
href="ftp://rpmfind.net/pub/rpmfind/">refetch the latest src.rpm</a>
(>= 1.6), and rebuild it locally with</p>
<p>rpm --rebuild rpmfind-1.6.src.rpm</p>
<p>if everything goes well it will generate an binary rpm that you can
install. Make sure you have rpm and rpm-devel packages installed as well
as <a href="ftp://rpmfind.net/pub/libxml/">libxml and libxml-devel</a>
recent ones (>= 1.8.7).</p>
<p>NOTE: <span style="background-color: #FF0000">I do not answer to bug
reports concerning 1.2 anymore</span>, this is definitely too old !</p>
</li>
<li><em>Rpmfind fails with an Invalid PASV message when fetching an FTP
package</em>
<p>known issue, it seems the FTP implementation of libxml is not perfect
nor complete, if your rpmfind relies on the libxml shared library it's a
good idea to update libxml and try again.</p>
<p>Version >= 1.8.9 and 2.1.2 of libxml should fix this problem, get
them <a href="ftp://rpmfind.net/pub/libxml/">there</a></p>
<p>If this still fails and you have minimal development skills, <a
href="XX">download the nanoftp.c module from the HEAD of CVS</a> and
compile it locally (you will need libxml-devel or libxml2-devel
installed):</p>
<p><code>gcc -o nanoftp -I/usr/include/gnome-xml -I/usr/include/libxml
-DTESTING nanoftp.c -lxml</code></p>
<p>and send me back the result (should be verbose) of running</p>
<p><code>nanoftp ftp://theserver/theresourcefailingtoload</code></p>
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<li><em>Rpmfind/Rpm2html doesn't work on my installation failing to open the
package database</em>
<p>the RPM database format may have changed, you may need to recompile or
fetch a more recent package for rpmfind/rpm2html/rpm</p>
<p>Easiest is to <a href="download.html">fetch a recent src.rpm</a>, make
sure that libxml, libxml-devel are installed an matches, as well as rpm
and rpm-devel (and possibly popt), then launch the following (possibly as
root):</p>
<p>rpm --rebuild rpmfind-xxx.rpm.src</p>
<p>if everything works okay this will build an rpm specific to your setup,
just install this one.</p>
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<li><em>I get the error rpmfind: error in loading shared libraries: rpmfind:
undefined symbol: xmlIsBlankNode</em>
<p>Upgrade your libxml RPM with a recent version >= 1.8.8</p>
<p><a
href="ftp://rpmfind.net/pub/libxml/">ftp://rpmfind.net/pub/libxml/</a></p>
</li>
<li><em>How can I tune rpmfind to avoid getting package from distribution
XXX ? How can I force packages to come from distribution YYY ?</em>
<p>Change your $HOME/.rpmfind to adjust the rating for the distribution.
Put a -1 rating for distributions you don't want packages from. To express
preference toward a given distribution give a good rating (e.g. 1000) to
it. You can ban distribution by using no_distrib option or try to for a
distrib on the command line by using option --dist xxx</p>
</li>
<li><em>Rpmfind seems to only returns RPMs for the redhat system, I never
got suggestions for other distributions</em>
<p>Redhat ships rpmfind witha default rpmfind config file pointing to
RedHat own RDF database. This database indexes only a very limited set of
distributions, mostly Redhat ones. Edit your .rpmfind (and optionally
/etc/rpmfind.config) and set the following value:</p>
<p><code>server=http://rpmfind.net/linux/RDF</code></p>
</li>
<li><em>Rpmfind tend to suggest me glibc binaries even if I'm running a
libc5 based system</em>
<p>Change your $HOME/.rpmfind in the section packages:</p>
<pre> -------------- original --------------
;
; Packages rejection criteria
;
[packages]
no_upgrade=glibc
no_upgrade=glibc.so.*
no_upgrade=libc
no_upgrade=libc.so.*
no_depend=libc.so.3
--------------------------------------
To
--------------------------------------
;
; Packages rejection criteria
;
[packages]
no_upgrade=glibc
no_upgrade=glibc.so.*
no_upgrade=libc
no_upgrade=libc.so.*
no_depend=libc.so.3
no_upgrade=glibc.*
no_depend=glibc.*
no_depend=libc.so.6
--------------------------------------</pre>
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<li><em>I'm getting "Increase MAX_MIRRORS=20" messages.</em>
<p>Update to <a href="ftp://rpmfind.net/pub/rpmfind">a newer version of
rpmfind</a></p>
</li>
<li><em>I'm behind a firewall and rpmfind doesn't work.</em>
<p>First check issue 1/</p>
<p>Then edit ~/.rpmfind and change the variables httpProxy and/or ftpProxy
to give the</p>
<p>URL of the proxy</p>
<pre>httpProxy=http://myhttpproxy:3128/
</pre>
</li>
<li><em>How to build a Web page that described the packages installed on a
machine.</em>
<p>This is definitely possible, here is an example of a config file doing
exactly that:</p>
<pre>maint=Sysadmin
mail=root@host.domain
dir=/home/httpd/html/setup
url=/setup
tree=true
[localbase]
name=Current Setup
ftp=ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-5.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS
ftpsrc=ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-5.0/SRPMS
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<p>The point here is that [localbase] hard coded value force rpm2html to
dump the RPM installed database instead of browsing a directory.</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: I would recommend some care about exporting
publicly the list of exported packages installed on a machine to the whole
internet. While this feature is definitely useful as a system
administration tool, this is a potential <strong>security hole</strong>
and action should be taken to restrain accesses to the generated pages</p>
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