Re: Problem with installing gnome-games-2.12

[Paul Smith <phhs80 gmail com>]

On 9/15/05, Paul Smith <phhs80 gmail com> wrote:
> > > No progress, Callum:
> > >
> > > # rpm -Uhv gnome-games-2.12.0-1.i386.rpm
> > > Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
> > >         file /var/log/scrollkeeper.log from install of
> > > gnome-games-2.12.0-1 conflicts with file from package
> > > scrollkeeper-0.3.14-5
> > > #
> > OK, that's weird. It is packaging a file that has been explicitly
> > removed.
> >
> > Did you say you were using checkinstall to build the rpm?
> >
> > Have you tried the normal 'rpmbuild -bb' route.
> >
> > Looking at the description of checkinstall on their website they seem to
> > just do a "make install" and package the result. This ignores any .spec
> > files (which explains why using the 2.10 spec file doesn't help) and
> > packages everything (including the log files). It looks great for a
> > quick and dirty packaging of something without a spec file, but if you
> > have a spec file you should use it.
> 
> That is true, Callum, that I used checkinstall. How can I use the
> 'rpmbuild -bb' route?  Could you please give some directions?

Tried this:

# rpmbuild -bb gnome-games.spec
error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright
error: line 16: Unknown tag: Copyright: GPL
# 

Paul