failed to rpmbuild the docs tarball

Peter Selinger selinger at mathstat.dal.ca
Mon Apr 2 23:31:07 EDT 2007


You should replace "Copyright:" by "License:" in in the *.spec file.
-- Peter

Kevin HaleBoyes wrote:
> 
> I get the following error when I try to build an RPM from the latest
> docs tarball:
> 
> [root at localhost md]# rpmbuild -tb gnucash-docs-2.0.1.tar.gz
> error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright
> error: line 8: Unknown tag: Copyright:  GNU Free Documentation License
> 
> Is there anything I can do to fix that, short of un-taring, removing
> the copyright line and tar'ing it all back up?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin.
> 
> 
> # uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-1.2257.fc5 #1 Fri Dec 15 16:06:24 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386
> GNU/Linux


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