FC5 "rpmbuild -ta" problems

["Marcio Oliveira" <oliveiram gmail com>]

Hi there,

I got many error messages on FC5 fully updated trying to compile tar packages using "rpmbuild -ta tar_package.tar.gz" command.

I notice that rpmbuild was executing "/bin/tar xOvf - Specfile" and "/bin/tar xOvf - <package_name>.spec" commands to extract .spec files from the tar packages but without success. The rpmbuild command always create "/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/tar\:\ Pattern\ matching\ characters\ used\ in\ file\ names.\ Please\," and "tar\:\ You\ must\ specify\ one\ of\ the\ \`-Acdtrux\'\ options" files in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS directory.

I solved this problem adding "-" before tar options and "--wildcards"  to tar command in build.c file. (see attached patch).

Is this problem a rpmbuild bug? There is a way to fix if without patch / recompile rpm packages?

These are the steps to reproduce this problem:

# wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2
# tar -xjvf 
linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 -C /usr/src
# cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.18
# make oldconfig
# make rpm
make clean
set -e; cd ..; ln -sf /usr/src/linux-
2.6.18 kernel-2.6.18
set
-e; cd ..; tar -cz --exclude SCCS --exclude BitKeeper --exclude .svn
--exclude CVS --exclude .pc --exclude .hg --exclude .git -f
kernel-2.6.18.tar.gz kernel-2.6.18/*
set -e; cd ..; rm kernel-2.6.18
set -e; \
/bin/sh /usr/src/linux-2.6.18/scripts/mkversion > /usr/src/linux-2.6.18/.tmp_version
set -e; \
mv -f /usr/src/linux-2.6.18/.tmp_version /usr/src/linux-2.6.18/.version
rpmbuild --target i686 -ta ../kernel-
2.6.18.tar.gz
Building target platforms: i686
Building for target i686
error: Name field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Version field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Release field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Summary field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Group field must be present in package: (main package)
error: License field must be present in package: (main package)
make[1]: *** [rpm] Error 1
make: *** [rpm] Error 2

("make rpm" executes "rpmbuild --target i686 -ta ../kernel-
2.6.18.tar.gz")

thanks,
Márcio
--- rpm-4.4.2/build.c.orig	2006-09-29 09:17:25.000000000 -0300
+++ rpm-4.4.2/build.c	2006-09-29 09:18:01.000000000 -0300
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
 	(void) isCompressed(arg, &res);
 
 	cmd = alloca(strlen(arg) + 50 + strlen(tmpSpecFile));
-	sprintf(cmd, "%s < %s | tar xOvf - Specfile 2>&1 > %s",
+	sprintf(cmd, "%s < %s | tar -xOvf - Specfile 2>&1 > %s",
 			zcmds[res & 0x3], arg, tmpSpecFile);
 	if (!(fp = popen(cmd, "r"))) {
 	    rpmError(RPMERR_POPEN, _("Failed to open tar pipe: %m\n"));
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
 	    /* Try again */
 	    (void) pclose(fp);
 
-	    sprintf(cmd, "%s < %s | tar xOvf - \\*.spec 2>&1 > %s",
+	    sprintf(cmd, "%s < %s | tar --wildcards -xOvf - \\*.spec 2>&1 > %s",
 		    zcmds[res & 0x3], arg, tmpSpecFile);
 	    if (!(fp = popen(cmd, "r"))) {
 		rpmError(RPMERR_POPEN, _("Failed to open tar pipe: %m\n"));