On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Fulko Hew <fulko.hew@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I read all the related search-able stuff on the web that I could find, and I found one
and I found one link that gave a clue, that said:
"Well, the problem is that a file in the package has the buildroot location in it. This needs to be fixed."
So I thought what file do I have that has the string '/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/NetWatch-root' in it?I now, all of a sudden :-) I seem to be getting this error message when I build my package.
I don't recall changing my spec file since the last time it worked properly,
only adding some files 'inside' my package.
I'm using a simple scenario, probably not the best/correct approach, but it basically is:
a) develop the app in its target (installed) directory,
b) when rpm-build'ing, copy the necessary files into the 'build' directory and continue.
So I don't know what I'm doing wrong, the error message isn't helping me to understand
what is going wrong, and I don't think I changed anything since the last time it worked. :-)
Can someone shed some light please.
TIA
Fulko
PS. I'm building on a Fedora 8 box using RPM version 4.4.2.2
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I read all the related search-able stuff on the web that I could find, and I found one
and I found one link that gave a clue, that said:
"Well, the problem is that a file in the package has the buildroot location in it. This needs to be fixed."
My spec file doesn't, only the macro that would expand to it!
So I grep'ed everything and I found a 'typescript' log file lying around that contained
the log of a previous build. I guess I wanted to see all the steps that were occuring during
the packaging. Obviously this file didn't need to be part of my package, so I deleted it.
Re-packaging now works fine.
Like other people before me, I was bewildered by what the error message was trying to tell me...
Found '/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/NetWatch-root' in installed files; aborting
Perhaps if it had hit me over the head with the following phrase instead, I would have solved it faster:
Found the not-allowed string '/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/NetWatch-root' in a file in the package being created; aborting
Thanks for listening
Fulko
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