[PLUG] Problem in building RPM package

Stephen Liu satimis at icare.com.hk
Wed Mar 12 07:09:02 UTC 2003


Hi Paul,

Thanks for your advice.

The tarball does not have a spec file.  I am now searching for 
manual/instruction/advice to make one

B.Regards
Stephen


Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Stephen Liu wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi all folks
>>
>>I encountered problem in building a RPM package.  Steps carried out as 
>>follows;
>>
>>as 'USER'
>>
>>$ rpmbuild -tb /home/user/AAA.tar
>>error: File /home/user/AAA.tar: Permission denied
>>sh: /home/user/AAA.tar: Permission denied
>>error: Failed to rename /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/rpm-spec.iEoPOB to 
>>/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/rpm-spec.iEoPOB: No such file or directory: No 
>>such file or directory
> 
> 
> 1. USER will need write access to subdirectories in /usr/src/redhat.
> 
> 2. Are you sure that AAA.tar has a .spec file inside it? Not all 
>    tarballs ship that way...
> 
> 3. Assuming that 1. and 2. are true, and it still doesn't work, you'll 
>    need to do something like this to capture the error messages:
> 
>    rpm -tb -vv tarball.tar.gz | tee /tmp/rpm-errors.txt
> 
>    The resulting /tmp/rpm-errors.txt file will likely be very 
>    instructive.
> 
> --Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>
> 
> 
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