[mdb-dev] RPM packaging errors

[Kenneth P. <sh...@se...>]

I'm trying to build an RPM from the 0.6pre1 tarball. After tweaking the 
tarball filenames in the spec file to handle the "beta-ness", I'm getting 
errors due to problems in the %files section. (Red Hat's rpmbuild is fairly 
strict about packaged files to protect one from packaging errors.)

Processing files: mdbtools-0.6-0.pre1
error: File not found by glob: /home/buildmeister/var/tmp/usr/lib/libmdb.so*
error: File not found by glob: 
/home/buildmeister/var/tmp/usr/lib/libmdbsql.so*
error: File not found: /home/buildmeister/var/tmp/usr/bin/mdb-dump

Where do the so's get created? I thought libtool might do it but don't see 
it creating the files.

cp: cannot stat `BUGS': No such file or directory

This one's easy enough to fix. Did the file get lost?

In %files gui we have:

%{_datadir}/gnome/help/gmdb/C/*
%{_datadir}/gnome/help/gmdb/C/figures/*

This results in double-listing the PNG files. Only the parent listing is 
needed.

Once I get this working I can post a patch for the spec file. There really 
should be a spec file (not just a spec.in) in the tarball so that one can 
rebuild the RPM using "rpmbuild -ta xxxx.tar.gz". The tarball building 
procedure should be tweaked to accomplish that.