From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060202 Fedora/1.7.12-1.5.2 Description of problem: I was trying to build my own RPM this morning. The spec file was modified from a known working one. After a little tweaking, I found that rpmbuild won't execute the %install stage and wrote the source rpm only. After a careful inspection, I noticed that a "%{version" was in the comment (in %build stage). The rest of %build stage were skipped, so does %install, %pre, %post and %files. Only the source rpm was written. I took another official source rpm (tree and kernel) for testing. Just put a macro without a right brace (# %{name) in the comment. When rpmbuild saw this, a "+ exit 0" was executed, thus the rest of the spec file were skipped. This bug exists on both i386 and x86_64 platforms. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-build-4.4.1-22 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install any source rpm 2. Edit the spec file and put "# %{name" in the beginning of the %build stage 3. Execute "rpmbuild -ba XXXX.spec" Actual Results: 1. rpmbuild skipped the %build stage and the rest of the spec file and wrote only the source rpm: + exit 0 Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/tree-root Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/XXXX-A.B.C-D.src.rpm Expected Results: binary rpms were successfully built (or failed with messages). Additional info: Why does rpmbuild try to parse the comment?
Macros are expanded everywhere they are found, including comments. Escape the macro with '%%' is you don't want it expanded. This is a syntax error, not otherwise.
You're probably having trouble because your spec file's comment section has the wrong variable syntax, %{version. Because of this grammar issue, the RPM build process skips the %build stage entirely, which also skips the %install, %pre, %post, and %files phases. https://papaspizzeria.io/
If the error persists or you're dealing with https://worldle-game.org complex spec files, share more details, and I’ll provide targeted solutions.