I've had this problem before, and it's defeated me. I've downloaded the
(obsolete maximum-rpm) and perused the relevant section to no avail.
The problem is that in some cases, rpm can't find the files it's supposed
to package.
I'd heard good reports of gpart, a magic partition table fixer upper. The
only source rpm I could find was aSuSE srpm, so I downloaded
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/suse/suse/zq1/gpart.spm
(I am a bit doubtful about putting binary rpms from another distro on my
RHL system. Prdence said, "Source seems sensible," so that's what I got.
Despite seemingly endless stuffing around, here's how it dies:
Executing: %install
+ umask 022
++ mkdir -p /tmp/gpart
++ echo /tmp/gpart
+ cd /tmp/gpart
+ cd gpart-0.1b
+ rm -rf /tmp/Bgpart
+ make install prefix=/tmp/Bgpart/usr
make prefix=/tmp/Bgpart/usr -C src install
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/gpart/gpart-0.1b/src'
install -d /tmp/Bgpart/usr/bin
install -s gpart /tmp/Bgpart/usr/bin
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gpart/gpart-0.1b/src'
make prefix=/tmp/Bgpart/usr -C man install
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/gpart/gpart-0.1b/man'
install -d /tmp/Bgpart/usr/man
install -d /tmp/Bgpart/usr/man/man8
install -m 0444 gpart.8 /tmp/Bgpart/usr/man/man8
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gpart/gpart-0.1b/man'
+ exit 0
Processing files: gpart
File not found: /usr/bin/gpart
File not found: /usr/man/man8/gpart.8
Executing: %doc
+ umask 022
++ mkdir -p /tmp/gpart
++ echo /tmp/gpart
+ cd /tmp/gpart
+ cd gpart-0.1b
+ DOCDIR=/tmp/Bgpart/usr/doc/gpart-0.1b
+ export DOCDIR
+ rm -rf /tmp/Bgpart/usr/doc/gpart-0.1b
+ /bin/mkdir -p /tmp/Bgpart/usr/doc/gpart-0.1b
+ cp -pr COPYING /tmp/Bgpart/usr/doc/gpart-0.1b
+ cp -pr INSTALL /tmp/Bgpart/usr/doc/gpart-0.1b
+ cp -pr LSM /tmp/Bgpart/usr/doc/gpart-0.1b
+ cp -pr README /tmp/Bgpart/usr/doc/gpart-0.1b
+ exit 0
File not found: /usr/doc/gpart-0.1b
Provides: gpart
[summer@possum summer]$
I'm attaching the full spec file, but here's the bit I think most relevant:
%files
%defattr(-,root,root)
/usr/bin/gpart
/usr/man/man8/gpart.8
%doc COPYING
%doc INSTALL
%doc LSM
%doc README
Now, I have almost countless rpms here that build properly. I can't for
the life of me see what the material difference is. Any ideas?
#
# spec file for package gpart (Version 0.1b)
#
# Copyright (c) 1999 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.
#
# please send bugfixes or comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
Vendor: SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Distribution: SuSE Linux 6.2 (i386)
Name: gpart
Release: 36
Copyright: 1999 Michail Brzitwa
Group: unsorted
Provides: gpart
Autoreqprov: on
Packager: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Version: 0.1b
Summary: Tool that can guess a lost partition table
Source: gpart-0.1b.tar.gz
Patch: gpart-0.1b.dif
%description
gpart is a small tool which tries to guess what partitions
are on a PC type harddisk in case the primary partition table
was damaged.
gpart supports, among others, partitions formatted as ext2, FAT 12/16/32,
NTFS and HPFS.
Please read the file /usr/doc/packages/gpart/README and the gpart manpage
before using gpart.
Authors:
--------
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%prep
%setup -n gpart-0.1b
%patch
%build
#./configure
mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/doc/%{Name}-%{Version}
make prefix=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr
find ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT} -type f -ls
%install
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
make install prefix=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr
#Check
%files
%defattr(-,root,root)
/usr/bin/gpart
/usr/man/man8/gpart.8
%doc COPYING
%doc INSTALL
%doc LSM
%doc README
Cheers
John Summerfield
http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
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