RE: problem with rpm...

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kevin lyda [mailto:kevin@suberic.net]
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 8:38 AM
> To: rpm list
> Subject: Re: problem with rpm...
> 
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 08:22:09AM -0700, Peter Blomgren wrote:
> > That's it.  One missing file is enough not to get any packages!
> > Update your %files section, or figure out where the man-page went...
> 
> in the case of eject the man page was just gzipped.  but in 

The easiest way to handle man pages is just to put a * at the end, so that
it picks up man pages whether they're gziped, plain, or bzip2'd.

> the case of
> gnome-core my system is missing something that generates 
> locale files -
> the .../usr/share/locale tree is missing.  it's not the spec 
> file because
> someone else *can* build it.  must be some purge i'd done recently.

Yes, the gnome-core RPM is a wee bit stupid.  I've submitted patches, but
they've never gotten into CVS.  Do and 'unset LINGUAS', and you should be
able to build the gnome-core RPM.

> i still think that rpm should print an error message if it fails to
> make a package.  the output of -bi and -ba are the same - -ba should
> print out a message like "hey! don't bother looking for .rpm 
> file cause
> i didn't make 'em."

I'd like some more obvious error messages as well, but they haven't arrived
yet.  After working with RPM for a couple of weeks I was able to spot most
errors and fix them, but the only way I generally know it's failed is that
it DOESN'T say "wrote /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/screwed-up-1.0.0.i386.rpm".
Later,
	Greg