ascii-boxes/boxes

Spec file for building RPMs

dvmc opened this issue · 3 comments

dvmc commented

I have been trying to use the boxes.spec file to build an RPM. First, I had to do some adjustments (change copyright to license, and properly escape the % in the find command by doubling it). This is the command that I tried after building boxes:

rpmbuild -ba boxes.spec --build-in-place

This is as far as I could get. Now I get the following error:

Bad file: /home/d2/rpmbuild/SOURCES/v2.0.0.tar.gz: No such file or directory

I'm not too familiar with the RPM building process, so I don't know if the spec file needs further adjustments, or if it is just an invocation problem on my end.

tsjensen commented

Ah, well, the boxes.spec file is something I should remove from the repo, probably. I actually used it to build an RPM package 20 years ago, but that's not very useful today.

In order to help you, maybe this spec file by @tim77 is a better starting point for you. @tim77 uses it to build the official boxes package for Fedora, which is also RPM-based.

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dvmc commented

Thanks for the pointer! I can confirm that I can't compile Tim's spec file either, so it is definitely an invocation issue on my side.

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tim77 commented

Latest .spec file for Fedora here. JFYI.

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