Re: Failed to find provides

[Peter Bowen <pzb scyld com>]

On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 00:59, Rekha Deshmukh wrote:
> Hi!!
> I have written a spec file which only generates a binary package. I only
> copy the untarred files on the target machine and don't do any make or
> configure in my spec file. 
> The rpm gets created and I am able to install the package successfully.
> But while building the package it displays error 'Dependency tokens must
> begin with alpha-numeric characters '-' or '/'..
> Failed to find provides:
> ...'
> on the last line of my spec file.
> Can I ignore this error or some thing is wrong in my spec or rpm?

Yes something is wrong.  Assuming that your specfile is correct, most
likely there is a file that incorrectly has the +x bit set on it.

Thanks.
Peter