Poor error message.

["Mike A. Harris" <mharris meteng on ca>]

10 mharris@asdf:~/desktop-screenshots$ rpm -ba caudium.spec
File is not a regular file: /home/mharris/desktop-screenshots/caudium.spec
10 mharris@asdf:~/desktop-screenshots$ dir
total 177
drwxrwx---    2 mharris      1024 Sep 30 14:14 ./
drwxr-xr-x   52 mharris      7168 Sep 30 14:24 ../
-rw-rw----    1 mharris    145223 Sep 29 17:47 2000_09_29_174727_shot.jpg
-rw-rw----    1 mharris     24966 Sep 29 17:48 2000_09_29_174820_shot.jpg


I went to build an RPM package, but didn't realize I was in the
wrong directory.  No such file exists, but the error reported by
RPM is definitely misleading and incorrect.  File is definitely
not a regular file, it is a non-existant file.  ;o)




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