Mike Vanecek said:
> From: "William Hooper" <whooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[snip]
>> For example, I use Leafnode, which is distributed as a tar.bz2 file.
>> The author does included a spec file, so I can just do:
>>
>> # rpmbuild -tb leafnode-<version>.tar.bz2
>>
>> When trying as a user now I get:
>>
>> [whooper@xxxxxxxx whooper]$ rpmbuild -tb
>> /harddrive2/storage/downloads/linux/leafnode-1.9.37.rel.tar.bz2
>> error: Failed to rename
>> /home/whooper/rpmbuild/SOURCES/%{name}-%{version}/rpm-spec.3oomkl to
>> /home/whooper/rpmbuild/SOURCES/%{name}-%{version}/rpm-spec.3oomkl:
>> No such file or directory: No such file or directory
>> [whooper@xxxxxxxx whooper]$
>
> Try rpmbuild -bb leafnode.spec file while in ~/rpms/SPECS (and with the
> tarball source in ~/rpms/SOURCES) assuming you have
[snip]
This works, but with the added step of having to extract the spec file.
with the "-tb" option I don't have to do that.
> You may have to edit leafnode.spec to point to the correct version.
[snip]
Haven't had to do that in a while (the author for a time distributed devel
versions in tar.bz2, but had the spec looking for a tar.gz). As I said,
it works fine when using "-tb".
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William Hooper
