Re: Cannot install git RPM

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Aug 9, 2005, 12:51 UTC
Message-ID: <7v3bpjxoi1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050809110705.6B1FF352B36@atlas.denx.de>

Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> writes:

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> 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/*

Something like that using %{_datadir} is in the RC branch.

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> But the resulting RPM cannot be installed either,  at  least  not  in
> standard Fedora Core 2/3/4 installations:
> ...
> Is there at least some  documentation  which  external  packages  are
> needed, and where to find these?

Patches welcome. Sorry but I need a lot of help when it comes to binary packaging.