Re: BUG: "rpmbuild -ta cogito-0.12.tar.gz" fails

From: John Ellson <ellson@research.att.com>
Date: Jul 7, 2005, 17:23 UTC
Message-ID: <42CD64F9.1010304@research.att.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050707170748.GN5324@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>

Chris Wright wrote:

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>* John Ellson (ellson@research.att.com) wrote:
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>>But:
>>   cd cogito
>>   cg-update
>>   make dist
>>   rpmbuild -ta cogito-0.12.tar.gz
>>
>>still doesn't work.    Do you have a different process for generating 
>>the initial cogito-0.12-1src.rpm ?
>>    
>>
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>I start from the bz2 from kernel.org.
>
>thanks,
>-chris
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So now I have to ask, where does that come from if its not created by "make dist" ?

Is what I'm asking to do in the above sequence somehow unreasonable? Would it be any loss if the Source: line in cogito.spec.in refered to the .gz instead of the .bz2 such that the above sequence works for those of us that like to build rpms directly from the git tree?

Alternatively, perhaps "make dist" could generate the .bz2 instead?

John