I was too hasty but I have also little experience. Anyhow, I followed Ingo's list of required packages and installed all the missing ones. However that did not seemed to be the problem (yet). There is something with pkgconfig not in order, but pkgconfig is installed. The build, as root:
fiume: # rpmbuild --rebuild amanda-2.6.0p2-1.noarch.src.rpm Installing amanda-2.6.0p2-1.noarch.src.rpm warning: user buildslave does not exist - using root warning: group buildslave does not exist - using root warning: user buildslave does not exist - using root warning: group buildslave does not exist - using root PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gnome/share/pkgconfigerror: parse error in expression error: /usr/src/packages/SPECS/amanda.spec:113: parseExpressionBoolean returns -1 error: Name field must be present in package: (main package) error: Version field must be present in package: (main package) error: Release field must be present in package: (main package) error: Summary field must be present in package: (main package) error: Group field must be present in package: (main package) error: License field must be present in package: (main package) I think the line with PKG_CONFIG_PATH should have had a newline before "error:", because I checked $PKG_CONFIG_PATH for root: fiume: # set | grep PKG PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gnome/share/pkgconfig and both directories are empty: fiume: # ll /opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig total 0 fiume: # ll /opt/gnome/share/pkgconfig total 0 Should I specify PKG_CONFIG_PATH, or do I need to install something from gnome and, if so, what? Many thanks for your replies so far. Charles On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:33:41 -0500 "Dustin J. Mitchell" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Ingo Schaefer > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why did it fail to build. > > > > I would assume, that you don't have the filled all requirements for > > it to build. > > I talked briefly with Dan, our packaging expert. We (Zmanda) don't > build for OpenSUSE, but the source RPM should, at worst, just need a > few tweaks to get it working. We'd be happy to commit such tweaks if > we get a patch. Aside from the requirements Ingo mentions, this could > be due to a problem in the system version detection conditionals near > the top. These should be fairly easy to fix. > > If you have trouble, please post the error messages you see, and Dan > or I may be able to help. > > -- > Storage Software Engineer > http://www.zmanda.com
