Checkinstall on FC4 x64_64

[John Bray]

On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 01:35 +0100, Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Irrespective of the application, checkinstall always fails with the 
> following errors:
> 
> **************************************
> **** RPM package creation selected ***
> **************************************
> cat: /nWDkEAlqHkVoeGMHEQWi/newfiles: No such file or directory
> tar: -f: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
> tar: /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/tmsnc-0.3.0.tgz: Cannot stat: No such file 
> or directory
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> Q@��fO��O�~JC�$mZ�{n>s�s*���cH9�ZB�G=���cX�����p�(tar: Error exit 
> delayed from previous errors
> 
> Building RPM package... FAILED!
> 
> *** Failed to build the package
> 
> 
> Do you want to see the log file?  [y]: y
> 
> error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright
> error: line 5: Unknown tag: Copyright: GPL
> Building target platforms: x86_64
> Building for target x86_64
> /CLYeBjRSbpmChCOrjiUU/rpmbuild.log (END)
> 
> 
> Any ideas anyone?
> 
> -M
> 
> 

hey mustafa - it's the copyright tag in the spec file, which i guess
checkinstall is building for you.  the new rpm wants to see license
instead of copyright.  i've run into this problem when building several
src rpms recently.  it appears to be a change in the rpm system for fc4.

john