Spec file help

[Gavin Henry]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Saturday 07 February 2004 00:28, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 23:33:36 +0000, Gavin Henry wrote:
> > done that. All amendments are done on the previous spec on
> > http://suretecsystem.com/docs/netmon_applet.spec
>
> $ host suretecsystem.com
> Host suretecsystem.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>
> => http://www.suretecsystems.com/docs/netmon_applet.spec

Oops.

>
> > I get loads of:
> >
> > Recursion depth(17) greater than max(16)
> >     File not
> > found:
> > /var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var
> >/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/
> >netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmo
> >n_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_app
> >let-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/
> >usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/netmon_applet.debug (sorry for the length)
> >
> > I think the rm -rf in %install is causing this??
>
> Nah. Someone else made a wrong suggestion leading to recursion here:
> > BuildRoot      : %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{buildroot}
>
> You want:
>
> BuildRoot      : %{_tmppath}/%{name}-buildroot

Thanks.
>
> > This is just for fedora.
> >
> > > gnome-panel, gtk2 and libgnomeui > 2.0.0 were available in Red Hat
> > > Linux 8.0 already. If there's a specific reason why an explicit
> > > dependency [and even a versioned one] is needed, that should be
> > > documented in the spec file.
> >
> > I have documented this with a # should be a %description type thing or
> > can I just use the # for comments?
>
> It doesn't really belong into the package description. gtk2 is part
> of the distribution anyway.

Thanks. I will update and leave the spec up for anyone else that wants to
look.

http://www.suretecsystems.com/docs/netmon_applet.spec


>
> --

- -- 
Regards,

Gavin Henry.
Director.

Open Source. Open Solutions.
http://www.suretecsystems.com
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFAJS2FeWseh9tzvqgRAhZHAJ48BXd6pAwsVnIK1hlxS3dp3OZqSACeI6q7
nAiC9/6wM2FIwjBOSIvk4po=
=TglH
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----