https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324590 --- Comment #44 from paul.j.reger@xxxxxxxxx --- (In reply to Don Dutile from comment #43) > (In reply to russell.w.mcguire from comment #42) > > Question: Does the tarball we generate need to contain any spec file. After > > all these comments above, and viewing a lot of the SRPMs from Fedora21-23 > > download sites, I see that most all tar.balls inside the SRPMs do not > > contain specs. > > > > It seems to simplify life if we don't need to include the Fedora specific > > SPEC file in our tarball. Is this the correct direction. > > Yes. The spec file is separate from the tarball. It seems that if a specfile is not present in the tarfile, then, rpmbuild -ta will issue an error and fail. For example, I have created a tarfile WITHOUT the spec file in it, and rpmbuild issues an error: [pjreger@Fedora23-dev wfr-psm-new-10]$ rpmbuild -ta libpsm2-10.1.2.tar.gz error: Failed to read spec file from libpsm2-10.1.2.tar.gz Comments please? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are always notified about changes to this product and component _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx