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Re: Problem with the rpm for gnome-games-2.12



On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 03:26:19AM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> On 9/16/05, Paul Nasrat <pnasrat redhat com> wrote:
> > > I am trying to build a rpm for gnome-games-2.12, but I get the following error:
> > >
> > > # rpm -ihv gnome-games-2.12.0-1.i386.rpm
> > > Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
> > >       file /var/log/scrollkeeper.log from install of
> > > gnome-games-2.12.0-1 conflicts with file from package
> > > scrollkeeper-0.3.14-5
> > 
> > It's a file conflict! The message is quite specific.
> > 
> > I'm assuming the following - if you're not doing thes consult some docs
> > on howto[0]:
> > 
> > 1)  You're not building as root
> > 2) You are using BuildRoot in your sepc
> > 
> > 
> > Check your payload and %files section of your built rpm.  Do rpmbuild
> > -bi gnome-games.spec and then check the build root,  to see if there is
> > a <path to RPM_BUILD_ROOT>/var/log/scrollkeeper.log file in there,
> > figure out what is generating it or nuke it in %install or use %exclude
> > in the files list.
> 
> Thanks, Paul. Yes, am build as root and I am using BuildRoot in my
> spec. I have done the following:
> 
> * copied gnome-games tarball into
> 
> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> 
> * copied gnome-games-spec into
> 
> /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> 
> but when I run the command
> 
> rpmbuild -bi gnome-games.spec
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
> # rpmbuild -bi gnome-games.spec
> error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright
> error: line 16: Unknown tag: Copyright: GPL
> #
> 
> Replacing Copyright with Licence does not help.
> 
> Any ideas?

Try the American English spelling for "License"?

> Paul

-chris

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