Problem importing packages

[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:03:00 +0000, Paul wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>>> Any ideas on what is causing this?
>>>
>>> cvs-import.sh is a shell script. Search for the error message and
>>> try the comments manually. What do you get for...?
>>> rpm -qp --qf "%{SOURCERPM}" ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS/mono-2.2-8.pre2.fc11.src.rpm
>>
>> (unknown type)
>>
>> That's all it says!
>
> So, then that's an incompatibility introduced with whatever version
> of RPM you've used here.
>
> This breaks cvs-import.sh, which excepts above query to return
>
>  (none)
>
> for source rpms.
>
> Temporarily you can comment out the source rpm check in cvs-import.sh
> as a work-around. The script needs to be fixed. Or RPM needs to revert
> the change and print "(none)" again.

This is unintentional breakage in rpm 4.6.0-rc2, I'll pull the fix to 
Fedora tomorrow (getting a bit late for today)

 	- Panu -