Description of problem:

Using "rpmbuild -ta" on x86_64 does not seem to work correctly, where it does on
i386. This is with rpm version 4.4.2-15.2

Here's the error:

$ rpmbuild  -ta kdcregister-1.9.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)

Here's the same tarball on i386:

rpmbuild  -ta kdcregister-1.9.tar.gz
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.72832
+ umask 022
+ cd /afs/inf.ed.ac.uk/user/s/squinney/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ LANG=C
+ export LANG
+ unset DISPLAY
+ cd /afs/inf.ed.ac.uk/user/s/squinney/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ rm -rf kdcregister
+ /bin/gzip -dc /afs/inf.ed.ac.uk/user/s/squinney/dice/kdcregister-1.9.tar.gz
+ tar -xf -
+ STATUS=0
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ cd kdcregister
++ /usr/bin/id -u
+ '[' 335781 = 0 ']'
++ /usr/bin/id -u
+ '[' 335781 = 0 ']'
+ /bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w .
+ exit 0
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.72832
+ umask 022
+ cd /afs/inf.ed.ac.uk/user/s/squinney/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd kdcregister
+ LANG=C
+ export LANG
+ unset DISPLAY
+ make
cc -I/usr/kerberos/include -I/usr/include/krb5/ -I/usr/include/kadm
-I/usr/include/et -Wall   -c -o kdcregister.o kdcregister.c
gcc -o kdcregister kdcregister.o -L/usr/kerberos/lib -lkadm5clnt -lgssrpc
-lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err
+ exit 0
Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.72832
+ umask 022
+ cd /afs/inf.ed.ac.uk/user/s/squinney/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd kdcregister
+ LANG=C
+ export LANG
+ unset DISPLAY
+ make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/kdcregister-1.9 install
mkdir -p /var/tmp/kdcregister-1.9/usr/bin/
mkdir -p /var/tmp/kdcregister-1.9/usr/man/man1
install -s -m 755 kdcregister /var/tmp/kdcregister-1.9/usr/bin/kdcregister
install    -m 644 kdcregister.M /var/tmp/kdcregister-1.9/usr/man/man1/kdcregister.1
+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
+ find /var/tmp/kdcregister-1.9/usr -type f -print
+ sed 's@^/var/tmp/kdcregister-1.9@@g'
+ /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh
/afs/inf.ed.ac.uk/user/s/squinney/rpmbuild/BUILD/kdcregister
0 blocks
find: /var/tmp/kdcregister-1.9/usr/lib: No such file or directory
+ /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-compress
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-static-archive /usr/bin/strip
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-comment-note /usr/bin/strip /usr/bin/objdump
+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-python-bytecompile
Processing files: kdcregister-1.9-1
Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
Requires: libc.so.6 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libcom_err.so.2 libgssapi_krb5.so.2
libgssrpc.so.4 libk5crypto.so.3 libkadm5clnt.so.5
libkadm5clnt.so.5(kadm5clnt_5_MIT) libkrb5.so.3 libkrb5.so.3(krb5_3_MIT)
Processing files: kdcregister-debuginfo-1.9-1
Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/kdcregister-1.9
Wrote: /afs/inf.ed.ac.uk/user/s/squinney/rpmbuild/SRPMS/kdcregister-1.9-1.src.rpm
Wrote:
/afs/inf.ed.ac.uk/user/s/squinney/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/kdcregister-1.9-1.i386.rpm
Wrote:
/afs/inf.ed.ac.uk/user/s/squinney/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/kdcregister-debuginfo-1.9-1.i386.rpm
Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.76399
+ umask 022
+ cd /afs/inf.ed.ac.uk/user/s/squinney/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd kdcregister
+ rm -rf /var/tmp/kdcregister-1.9
+ exit 0

I've attached the tarball in case it is actually caused by something I've
done wrong.

Cheers,

Stephen Quinney