[ gpsdrive ] RPM Build Problems

[Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany)]

On Saturday 21 July 2007 22:08, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 02:37:09AM +0200, Guenther Meyer wrote:
> > Am Freitag 20 Juli 2007 schrieb Charles Curley:
> > > I got a Fedora 7 RPM built. rpmlint reports a number of problems. I
> > > would like to fix the errors (E:) and at least some of the warnings
> > > (W:). A lot of these are files of 0 length, which a spot check
> > > indicates represents a problem in subversion.
> >
> > the zero-length png-files are not an error.
> > they are there as proxies to allow the automatic update of the pois and
> > the icons.xml file. they shouldn't be in a package.
>
> If they shouldn't be in a package, then should "make distdir" put them
> in the tarball?

Yes and no. They are int the tar ball to make it complete. And they are 
required for the update-icons.pl. NBut best would be to try and fill them 
with content.

> Are they required for building? If they are, they have to be in the
> source RPM, and so they have to be in the tarball. I don't really want
> to write a "search and destroy" command to put into the spec file to
> keep them from the executable RPM.

I hope we can fill them with real content hopefully soon. So this problem will 
vanish.

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Jörg (Germany, Munich)

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