Re: Help; newbie to RPM and troubles with tar!

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:39:47PM +0100, Matthew Allen wrote:
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.80120: tar: command not found

Sounds like you need to make tar be a prereq.

> user mdallen does not exist - using root

And, sounds like you need to set a defattr in your files section.



> Summary: The Genos package (binary only)
> Name: Genos
> Version: 1.0
> Release: 1
> Copyright: Red-M
> Group: System Environment/Daemons
> Source: /u/master/red-m


Add:

PreReq: tar

or, alternately, the new syntax of 

Requires(post): tar	



And down here:

> %files

%defattr(-,root,root)

> /usr/product/genos-extra/target.tgz 


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