Rebuild customized rpm with cpanel/whm, but rpmbuild requires http-devel

[sheepcross]

Hi Guys,

I follow the instructions here:

How to Build and Install Custom RPMs - cPanel Knowledge Base - cPanel Documentation

Try to re-build a customized src.rpm.

I encounter following error at the step trying to run rpmbuild -bb

cat: /usr/include/httpd/.mmn: No such file or directory
error: Failed build dependencies:
        httpd-devel >= 2.0.46-1 is needed by php-5.3.27-2.i386

On the other hand though, cpanel excluded httpd* in the yum.conf.

And yum search ea-apache24-devel also returns no found.

[email protected] [~/rpmbuild]# yum search ea-apache24-devel
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * rpmforge: mirror.nexcess.net
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
No Matches found

Operating system is CentOS 5.7 i686. I have CentOS, rpmforge and webtatic repos.

I also tried something funky like:

[email protected] [~/rpmbuild]# APXS2=/usr/bin/apxs  PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin rpmbuild -bb /root/rpmbuild/SPECS/php53.spec
cat: /usr/include/httpd/.mmn: No such file or directory
error: Failed build dependencies:
        httpd-devel >= 2.0.46-1 is needed by php-5.3.27-2.i386

Anyway, the reason I want to rebuild php 5.3.27 is actually trying to get php-devel-5.3.27-2.w5.i386.rpm for another box ( it's long gone from webtatic archive, or anywhere on the web ).

And the reason why that "another box" still using php 5.3.27 and CentOS 5.7 is another story.

The problem itself is not hard to walk-around, maybe a repo with valid ea-apache24 ( which I did search but no luck ), or maybe someone kind enough to share his/her php-devel-5.3.27-2.w5.i386.rpm with me.

After all I guess I still want to know how to solve the issue when some linux pkg need httpd-devel and that's a cpanel server.

 

[cPanelMichael]

And yum search ea-apache24-devel also returns no found.

Hello,
That's the correct package name, and I confirmed the following command works well:

yum install ea-apache24-devel

However, keep in mind this is only available with EasyApache 4. Since the system is using CentOS 5, then it's likely EasyApache 3 is installed. The better solution here would be to migrate the server away from CentOS 5. Is there anything in-particular that's preventing you from migrating to a newer OS?

Thank you.

 

[sheepcross]

Hello,
That's the correct package name, and I confirmed the following command works well:

yum install ea-apache24-devel

However, keep in mind this is only available with EasyApache 4. Since the system is using CentOS 5, then it's likely EasyApache 3 is installed. The better solution here would be to migrate the server away from CentOS 5. Is there anything in-particular that's preventing you from migrating to a newer OS?

Thank you.

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes it's easyapache3. And the situation here is we need to run a quick update to CentOS 5 servers to expire retired ciphers. Migrating will take longer time than the deadline provided by our online bank.

I'm new to those servers, and I want to make minimum modification, so I installed another customized curl with updated openssl. Now I just need to hook php with it. The plan is to phpize a new curl.so <= which need php-devel.

What if I just install http-devel, rebuild this php-devel-5.3.27 rpm, then uninstall httpd-devel? Does this break anything for easyapache3?

Regards,
Chris

 

[cPanelMichael]

I'm new to those servers, and I want to make minimum modification, so I installed another customized curl with updated openssl. Now I just need to hook php with it. The plan is to phpize a new curl.so <= which need php-devel.

Try using the workaround instructions referenced on this post and let us know if that helps:

Update cPanel to TLS 1.2 without modifying system files [php5 + curlssl + apache2.4.x]

Thanks!

 

[sheepcross]

Try using the workaround instructions referenced on this post and let us know if that helps:

Update cPanel to TLS 1.2 without modifying system files [php5 + curlssl + apache2.4.x]

Thanks!

Thanks Michael,

I solved the issue by rebuild php-devel on other server and just used the rpm.

Regards,
Chris

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hi Chris,

I'm happy to see you were able to address the issue. Thank you for updating us with the outcome.