On Friday 07 April 2006 9:23 pm, John Bowden wrote: > Chris writes: > > 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'm sure I'm doing something wrong here, however, the archives didn't > > seem to be much help. Can I build a source rpm from a .gz file? The > > rpmbuild man page says it can be done or thats the way I read it. > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks
> > I may not be much help here as I use Mandriva control centre to > install but have you uncompressed the gz file into the > /usr/src/RPMS/SOURCES first and then run the rpmbuild command? > Yep, tried that which gives me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SOURCES]# rpmbuild -ts -bs clamav-0.88.1 error: File clamav-0.88.1 is smaller than 4 bytes cat: -: Is a directory cat: -: Is a directory 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) One thing I just tried was to run gzip -d on the file which gave me just clamav-0.88.1.tar, but running: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SOURCES]# rpmbuild -ts clamav-0.88.1.tar 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) still gives the errors. At this point I'm unsure where the above would be located, they're not in the clamav source that I can find. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 21:32:40 up 39 days, 35 min, 3 users, load average: 0.34, 0.79, 0.74 Mandriva Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk
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