Re: Cannot install git RPM

From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Aug 9, 2005, 11:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20050809110705.6B1FF352B36@atlas.denx.de>
In-Reply-To: <20050809104040.B9C61352B36@atlas.denx.de>

I wrote:

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> it is not possible to build RPMs from the current git code:
> 
> RPM build errors:
>     Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
>    /usr/share/git-core/templates/description
>    /usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/post-update
>    /usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/update
>    /usr/share/git-core/templates/info/exclude
> make: *** [rpm] Error 1

A simple fix is of course:

-> diff -u git-core.spec.in.ORIG git-core.spec.in --- git-core.spec.in.ORIG 2005-08-09 10:26:50.845877000 +0200 +++ git-core.spec.in 2005-08-09 12:42:06.872310918 +0200

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 %{!?_without_docs: %doc Documentation/*.html }
 %{!?_without_docs: %{_mandir}/man1/*.1.gz}
 %{!?_without_docs: %{_mandir}/man7/*.7.gz}
+/usr/share/git-core/templates/*
 
 %changelog
 * Thu Jul 14 2005 Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>


But the resulting RPM cannot be installed either,  at  least  not  in
standard Fedora Core 2/3/4 installations:

error: Failed dependencies:
        perl(Email::Valid) is needed by git-core-0.99.3-1
        perl(Mail::Sendmail) is needed by git-core-0.99.3-1


Seems git is depending on more and more stuff which is not  available
in standard distros. This makes it not easier for new users...

Is there at least some  documentation  which  external  packages  are
needed, and where to find these?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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