failed to rpmbuild the docs tarball

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Apr 3 07:42:04 EDT 2007


Applied to SVN.

-derek

Kevin HaleBoyes <kcboyes at yahoo.com> writes:

> 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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