On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 08:29, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:11:53AM -0500, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 18:00, Alexander Volovics wrote:
>
> > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:36:02PM +0100, Yvon Thoraval wrote:
>
> > > > when rebuilding bbconfxxx.src.rpm, i get the followin error :
> > > >
> > > > RPM build errors:
> > > > File not found: /var/tmp/bbconf-1.4/usr/man/man1/bbconf.1
>
> > > You probably have to edit the bbconf.spec file and include something
> > > like the lines:
> > > cd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/man
> > > [ -f man1/bbconf.1.gz ] || gzip man1/bbconf.1
> > > after the line:
> > > # Build the file-list automagically :)
>
>
> > Um. This doesn't make sense. It seems that the build process is
> > failing because it's looking for "man1/bbconf.1", not
> > "man1/bbconf.1.gz". Why would it fix things to gzip the man page? And
> > I'm honestly very confused as to why this would fail anyway, since the
> > %files list is generated dynamically based on what files are actually
> > there.
>
> I can't explain it. I am not an rpm guru.
>
> All I can say is that under RedHat (7.2) the rpm macros seem to want
> to find a "man1/bbconf.1.gz" in the BUILD_ROOT and not "man1/bbconf.1".
> (all the man's included in the installed distro are gzipped).
>
> When rebuilding the bbconf src.rpm I got the same message as
> Yvon Thoraval: "File not found: /var/tmp/bbconf-1.4/usr/man/man1/bbconf.1"
>
> When I gzipped the man page first everything worked perfectly.
>
> Alexander
Hm. *muttering foul words regarding RPMS* Okay, I've changed this and
put it into CVS. Can someone please pull down 1.6-pre from CVS when you
get a chance and give this a shot? (cvs update && ./configure && make
dist-rpm) Please let me know....
>
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