Trying to build tightvnc for FC10 from FC11 src.rpm

[dexter]

2009/2/12 Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>:
> Well I got the src.rpm for fc11, and after running rpmbuild, I found a
> number of dependencies I needed.  I installed those and tried again and not
> too supprisingly the rebuild failed.
>
> First it is telling me that both user and group mockbuild do not exist and
> it is using root.
>
> Is this a problem?  I am running from userid:  me
>
>
> After these warnings, I get an Executing(%prep) and a number of info
> messages, then after a line about 'patching file configure.ac' I get:
>
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 29.
> Hunk #2 succeeded at 53 (offset 2 lines).
> Hunk #3 succeeded at 1213 (offset 10 lines).
> Hunk #4 FAILED at 1892.
> 2 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file configure.ac.rej
> patching file hw/Makefile.am
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 33.
> 1 out of 1 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file hw/Makefile.am.rej
> patching file mi/miinitext.c
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 272.
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 478.
> 2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file mi/miinitext.c.rej
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.lr6xIj (%prep)
>
> So what do I do to get this working?
>

Start by looking at the spec file here:
   patch -p1 --fuzz=0 < ../xserver16.patch
xserver 1.6 aint out for F10 so do:
   patch -p1 --fuzz=2 < ../xserver15.patch
The other patches should apply clean, investigate those that dont then rebase.

...dex