check-buildroot failure

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:14:17 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:

> I'm getting the following build error:
> 
> /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot
> /var/tmp/libgssapi-0.11-root/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libgssapi.pc:prefix=/var/tmp/libgssapi-0.11-root
> Found '/var/tmp/libgssapi-0.11-root' in installed files; aborting
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.75914 (%install)
> 
> I've search this list and others, found nothing...  In
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines I did find
> a section about removing rpaths... even thought the error on the
> wiki page is different than the one I'm getting I figured I would
> try... I've tried both suggested ways of removing rpaths
> with no success.
> 
> So what exactly do I need to do to get pass this failure?
> 
> <rant>
> imho... this error message "in installed files; aborting"
> is completely unacceptable because its meaningless.

Hmm? Doesn't it just mean that

  /var/tmp/libgssapi-0.11-root/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libgssapi.pc

in your %buildroot contains

  prefix=/var/tmp/libgssapi-0.11-root

?

> I'll be opening a bz on this script, but people who author
> these type of scripts, *PLEASE* be as explicit as possible
> as to exactly what the problem is. People who have a
> clue only needed clue to fix the problem... Error
> messages like leave people who have a clue... clueless...
> </rant>
> 
> steved.
> 
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