Re: git 2.8.0 tarball rpmbuild error

From: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 2, 2016, 16:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20160402161636.GD13271@zaya.teonanacatl.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAFZEwPPQPsk3ERu-h5qk+VZ=f3Ta4oPwgHN=5hTuVH5wxeiPGQ@mail.gmail.com>

Pranit Bauva wrote:

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> On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 9:18 PM, マッチョコ太郎 <mebius1080p@gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi 
>> I downloaded tarball (tar.gz) from git web site and tried to make rpm file. 
>> But, when I run command "$rpmbuild -tb --clean git-2.8.0.tar.gz", 
>> error message is displayed and rpm file creation stopped. 
>> The error message is looks like this:
>> cp -pr README ~/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/git-2.8.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64/usr/share/doc/git-2.8.0 
>> cp: cannot stat 'README': No such file or directory
>>
>> It looks like README file does not exist on expected directory.
>>
>> Im using Centos 7.2. 
>> I hope this bug will fix soon. 
>> thank you
>
> Actually this bug was identified a few days ago and a patch has also 
> been sent by Matthieu Moy. Thanks for reporting!

D'oh, I didn't notice this had been reported already and a patch provided.

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Todd
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