Hi
Having a strange issue. I am trying to create an RPM from a gzipped
tarball (though I've also tried plain tar and Bzip'ed and am having the
same issue).
This is my build command:
rpmbuild --define "_rpmdir `pwd`" \
--define '_build_name_fmt
%%{NAME}-%%{VERSION}-%%{RELEASE}.%%{ARCH}.rpm' \
-tb packages/gotmail-0.8.9.tar.gz
I get the error messages:
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)
make: *** [rpm] Error 1
Now - I know this suggests the spec file isn't in the tar. But it is in
there:
# tar -tf gotmail-0.8.9.tar.gz
gotmail-0.8.9/
gotmail-0.8.9/gotmail
gotmail-0.8.9/NEWS
gotmail-0.8.9/gotmail.man
gotmail-0.8.9/README
*** gotmail-0.8.9/gotmail.spec ***
gotmail-0.8.9/sample.gotmailrc
gotmail-0.8.9/PRESSRELEASE
gotmail-0.8.9/Makefile
gotmail-0.8.9/ChangeLog
gotmail-0.8.9/gotmail4evolution
gotmail-0.8.9/VERSION
gotmail-0.8.9/AUTHORS
gotmail-0.8.9/COPYING
I did an strace of the rpmbuild process and got:
Specfile: Not found in archive
I have no idea why it can't find the spec file in the archive and am
stumped. What's worse is that it worked last time I built the package!
My environment:
Fedora Core 5 (2.6.17-1.2187_FC5)
RPM version 4.4.2
any help much appreciated!
Regards
James Turnbull
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