User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080208 Fedora/2.0.0.12-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.12 Build Identifier: When trying to build the exo rpm from svn, it fails with: 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 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. svn co http://svn.xfce.org/svn/xfce/libexo/trunk 2. cd trunk; ./autogen.sh --enable-xsltproc --enable-gtk-doc (seems to be requirement for building the rpm 3. sudo make rpm Actual Results: 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 Expected Results: rpm to be built in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 The initial failure is, as far as I can tell, due to the omission of the generated exo.spec file in the tar file when make dist is run. svn diff Makefile.am Index: Makefile.am =================================================================== --- Makefile.am (revision 26652) +++ Makefile.am (working copy) @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ THANKS \ TODO \ exo.spec.in \ + exo.spec \ intltool-extract.in \ intltool-merge.in \ Once that's fixed, there is a problem with the version, which includes a hyphen and causes the rpmbuild to fail with: error: line 3: Illegal char '-' in version: Version: 0.3.5svn-r26661 A naive fix is: $ svn diff configure.in.in Index: configure.in.in =================================================================== --- configure.in.in (revision 26652) +++ configure.in.in (working copy) @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ m4_define([libexo_version_nano], []) m4_define([libexo_version_build], [r@REVISION@]) m4_define([libexo_version_tag], [svn]) -m4_define([libexo_version], [libexo_version_major().libexo_version_minor().libexo_version_micro()ifelse(libexo_version_nano(), [], [], [.libexo_version_nano()])ifelse(libexo_version_tag(), [svn], [libexo_version_tag()-libexo_version_build()], [libexo_version_tag()])]) +m4_define([libexo_version], [libexo_version_major().libexo_version_minor().libexo_version_micro()ifelse(libexo_version_nano(), [], [], [.libexo_version_nano()])ifelse(libexo_version_tag(), [svn], [libexo_version_tag().libexo_version_build()], [libexo_version_tag()])]) dnl ******************************************** dnl *** Full debug support for SVN snapshots *** and $ svn diff exo.spec.in Index: exo.spec.in =================================================================== --- exo.spec.in (revision 26652) +++ exo.spec.in (working copy) @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Summary: Application library for the Xfce desktop environment -Name: @PACKAGE_TARNAME@@LIBEXO_VERSION_API@ +Name: @PACKAGE_TARNAME@ Version: @PACKAGE_VERSION@ Release: 1 License: LGPL Finally, when that is fixed an is raised for some installed but unpackaged files: RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/bin/exo-eject /usr/bin/exo-mount /usr/bin/exo-unmount make: *** [rpm] Error 1 Which can be fixed with: $ svn diff exo.spec.in Index: exo.spec.in =================================================================== --- exo.spec.in (revision 26652) +++ exo.spec.in (working copy) @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Summary: Application library for the Xfce desktop environment -Name: @PACKAGE_TARNAME@@LIBEXO_VERSION_API@ +Name: @PACKAGE_TARNAME@ Version: @PACKAGE_VERSION@ Release: 1 License: LGPL @@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ %defattr(-,root,root) %{_bindir}/exo-desktop-item-edit %{_bindir}/exo-open +%{_bindir}/exo-eject +%{_bindir}/exo-mount +%{_bindir}/exo-unmount %{_bindir}/exo-preferred-applications %{_datadir}/applications %{_datadir}/icons I'll attach the whole patch for review.
Created attachment 1543 Patches as described to fix make rpm Most of the changes seem OK to me, but I'm not sure about the version fix. Perhaps s/-/\./ is too naive?
We never put the .spec files in extradist since it's generated. Other things have been fixed.