Re: [gnome-db] Building RPMs failes

[adam morrison-ind com]

>>>>(BTW, the links from the website are wrong and make finding the 0.8.199
>>>>tar balls rather tricky.  The latest doesn't point to 0.8.199)
>>>right, fixed now.
>>>>I've posted the RPMs created on my project site if anyone is interested.
>>>>http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/projects/awilliam/
>>>>(FTI; The FTP server is connection limited, so if it may take a couple
>>>>of tries to download them.)
>>I've posted RedHat 8.0 RPMs for GDA and GNOME-DB on the site as well.
>>The mergeant.spec file seems to be bad
>>[root lnx01688 SPECS]# rpmbuild -bb mergeant.spec
>>error: File /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/mergeant-0.11.0.tar.gz: No such file
>>or directory
>>[root lnx01688 SPECS]# vi mergeant.spec
>>Changed the version to 0.8.199 to match the tar ball in SOURCES
>>%define name    mergeant
>>%define ver     0.8.199
>hmm, 0.11.0 is the version on HEAD, where I did generate the spec file
>to send to you. So there might be some 0.11.0 still in the spec file.
>Please replace all 0.11.0 strings with 0.8.199. That should work.

Nope,  the "%define ver" parameter was the only occurance of 0.11.0

[root lnx01688 root]# cd /usr/src/redhat
[root lnx01688 redhat]# cd SPECS
[root lnx01688 SPECS]# grep 11 mergeant.spec
Group:          X11/GNOME/Applications
[root lnx01688 SPECS]# 

>Sorry for the incovenience :-)

No problem,  it will save me hours and hours later on.