Rpmbuild’s RPATH feature is used to search libraries outside of standard paths. They are given to the linker at buildtime. If the developers of the code you’re trying to turn into an RPM did not take any of these considerations into account when they write their programs then you may be forced to skip check-rpath.

In GNU’s Make manual, there’s a description of how to use one Makefile to call targets of another Makefile. You have to use $(MAKE) in order for it to work properly. I’ve found one little snag that’s not mentioned. If my target name is the same as the directory name where the other Makefile is, it will never work. It always says it’s up to date! If I change the target name, it works fine.

You may find that grub is pretty useless when your menu.lst is missing or misconfigured. It’s not easy to figure out how to make grub tell you where the files are that you need. Here’s how to find what you need in order to boot, just using the grub bootloader.

Here’s one very specific way to temporarily remove an RPM package where I think I want it gone, but I want to test to see how the system reacts when the package is completely removed. I dont’ want to just remove it because i’ve made some changes to the config files and perhaps I’ve spliced in a few custom binaries here and there, so it’s really iffy.

First it was the three red rings of death. I had to wait forever for them to ship my console back to me! And now my Xbox 360 console won’t play games anymore from disc. Fallout, Crackdown, Orange Box, and COD world at war, I tried them all and none of them will play. I can get on Xbox live and play Castle Crashers just fine, but any attempt to play a game from CD and it acts like the disc is all scratched up.