failed to rpmbuild the docs tarball

Kevin HaleBoyes kcboyes at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 2 23:52:16 EDT 2007


Thanks for your help.
I've included a patch though it seems silly to do so as it is such a
trivial change...

[hb at localhost gnucash-docs-trunk]$ svn diff gnucash-docs.spec.in
Index: gnucash-docs.spec.in
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs.spec.in        (revision 15779)
+++ gnucash-docs.spec.in        (working copy)
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 Summary:       This is the documentation module for GnuCash
 Version:       %{version}
 Release:       1
-Copyright:     GNU Free Documentation License
+License:       GNU Free Documentation License
 Group:         Applications/Finance
 URL:            http://www.gnucash.org
 Source:        http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/gnucash-docs-%{version}.tar.gz






--- Peter Selinger <selinger at mathstat.dal.ca> wrote:

> 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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