In regard to: Re: Building from tar ball without a version string?, Zac...:
From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Any ideas on how to tell rpmbuild to NOT demand a $version?
In %prep section of the spec:
%setup -n %{name}
..instead of plain %setup which actually is equal to %setup -n
%{name}-%{version}.
- Panu -
Brilliant!!!! It works with just one snag which is not related to the
answer so maybe this needs a new subject.
After downloading the tarball I attempt a build.
#rpmbuild -vv -tb demo.tar.gz
error: Name field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Version field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Release field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Summary field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Group field must be present in package: (main package)
error: License field must be present in package: (main package)
I very much recommend you don't build as root, if you can at all avoid it.
Either build as your normal user, or create a special account (or role) for
package building.
I've seen that exact set of errors happen when the top portion of the
spec file has comments, and those comments include something like %build
or %patch. If you have comments at the top of your spec file, make sure
that you escape (by doubling up the % signs) any tokens that RPM might
expand.
Tim
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