[virt-tools-list] Building virt-manager RPM error: "Unknown tag: Recommends: (libvirt-daemon-kvm or libvirt-daemon-qemu)"

[Pavel Hrdina]

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 02:35:26PM +0000, peter.muryshkin at zv.fraunhofer.de wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> 
> while building an RPM under CentOS 7.6, I get the following error which I don't understand for both master branch and the v2.1.0 tag:
> 
> 
> (...)
> creating dist
> Creating tar archive
> removing 'virt-manager-2.1.0' (and everything under it)
> error: line 53: Unknown tag: Recommends: (libvirt-daemon-kvm or libvirt-daemon-qemu)
> 
> The host is a machine which has both kvm and qemu to build VM images with virt-install 1.5.0 and our team would like to use the latest version of virt-install.
> 
> I've tried the build with python 3.6 and can also reproduce this error in Docker where of course there is no libvirt.
> 
> Many thanks in advance for hints how to fix this and build the RPM distro.

Hi Peter,

There is only one possible simple fix, remove that line from the
virt-manager.spec file.

Support for Recommends in RPM was introduced in version 4.12.0 but the
version available on CentOS 7.6 is 4.11.1.  The same applies to the
Suggests tag.

Pavel
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