I'm distributing and supporting a project made with web2py as a set of RPMs
(RHEL/CentOS/SL) for a while now. No big problems... I use Mock on SL6 to
generate the RPMs.
This project is fairly complex and involves much more than just web2py app,
so my spec files wouldn't be applicaple straight away. But the parts that
concern web2py itself are straightforward. I just wrote the spec files from
blank, according to Fedora / RHEL standards. Their rpm/spec documentation
is pretty good.
As to your error - it seems that the string "of secure database-driven
web-based applications, written and" gets misinterpreted as a tag. I assume
it's a part of the textual description that should be under a
%*description*tag..? Can't say what causes this without looking at the spec
file, though.
Regards,
Ales
On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 5:26:12 AM UTC+2, thinkwell wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> The report feature I've been toiling over is now finished - YEA! and ready
> to be to deployed to the /opt/www/web2py directory of the various machines.
> This is a task for puppet, which we use for config & package management as
> it handles RPMs and custom repos extremely well, so that was my plan for
> deploying this project.
>
> My thought was to make an RPM by running setup.py bdist_rpm, but even a
> fresh copy of web2py throws errors like:
>
> error: line 7: Unknown tag: of secure database-driven web-based
> applications, written and
> error: query of specfile build/bdist.linux-i686/rpm/SPECS/web2py.spec
> failed, can't parse
> error: Failed to execute: "rpm -q --qf
> '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.src.rpm
> %{arch}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}.rpm\\n' --specfile
> 'build/bdist.linux-i686/rpm/SPECS/web2py.spec'"
>
> Any suggestions? I'm green when it comes to making noarch RPMs with
> rpmbuild. This is a nonstandard use-case I suppose because it's getting
> deployed somewhat as an application on many servers. I'm open to advice.
>
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