Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 80131
Package can't be built from source-RPM in usual way
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: I tried to built this package from source-rpm (rpmdb-redhat-8.0-0.20020910.src.rpm) but all my attempts were unsuccesfull. Building craches at the %prep stage. I found in spec-file the following: ... #%dontdefine rpmdbname redhat #%dontdefine rpmdbversion 6.1 #%dontdefine rpmdbversion /mnt/somewhere ... %prep [ -d %{rpmdbtree} ] || { echo "This specfile needs access to %{rpmdbtree}/%{_arch}/Redhat/RPMS" exit 1 } ... May be it will be better to define (for example) rpmdbname as 'redhat', rpmdbversion as '8.0', rpmdbversion as '%{_tmppath}/rpmdbtree'. And then create '%{rpmdbtree}/%{_arch}/Redhat/RPMS' directory needed for build. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -i rpmdb-redhat-8.0-0.20020910.src.rpm 2. cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS 3. rpmbuild -bb rpmdb-redhat.spec.in Actual Results: Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.46149 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD + LANG=C + export LANG + '[' -d '%{rpmdbtree}' ']' + echo 'This specfile needs access to %{rpmdbtree}/i386/Redhat/RPMS' This specfile needs access to %{rpmdbtree}/i386/Redhat/RPMS + exit 1 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.46149 (%prep) Expected Results: Binary rpm should be built. Additional info:
Created attachment 88833 [details] patch for rpmdb-redhat.spec.in apply this patch from WORK_DIR (not from SPEC)
That's because it's not built in the usual way :) The package is generated as part of the compose process, and not like any of the other packages in the distro (aside from the comps package, which has to be built in a special way as well). Tim