Errors with creating rpm for yacas

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 14 21:32:17 UTC 2007


On 2/14/07, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
> > rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/yacas.spec
>
> I hope that you've changed the permissions on /usr/src/redhat to allow
> a user account to write there so that you don't build as root.  There
> is much good information around on doing this.  One new source is the
> draft at:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/BuildingPackagesGuide
>
> > but I am getting the errors below. Any ideas? I may be needing to
> > install the development tools.
>
> The errors below indicate that the %files section of the spec file are
> not complete.  You want to add the files listed there to the %files
> section.  You can use wildcards do avoid having to enter them all.
>
> The rpm-guide has further info in the chapter on "Filling the List of
> Files."  See the main rpm-guide page here:
>
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/

Thanks, Todd. I tend to think that the problem is caused by

'find: /tmp/yacas-1.0.63-root/usr/lib/debug: No such file or directory'

but I do not know how to remove it.

Paul




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