make rpmbuild donload the sources

mildred · #1 22nd November 2007, 05:19 PM

Hi,

I just installed Fedora 8 and use it, it is great, but I need to install gspiceui and there is not package for it, so I had to create my own package. So I write gspaceui.spec and tried to use rpmbuild to build a package, however I have the following error:

Code:

$ rpmbuild -ba gspaceui.spec
error: File /home/mildred/.rpmbuild/SOURCES/gspiceui-v0.9.33.tar.gz: No such file or directory

Of course I can download the file manually (and I did), but that's not very convenient. And if I have to do it, i wonder why I provided an URL where the file can be downloaded. So do you know how to make rpmbuild download the file ?

Thanks.

Mildred

Brian1 · #2 22nd November 2007, 05:57 PM

Don't have a clue since not seeing the contents of the spec file.

Brian

leigh123linux · #3 22nd November 2007, 05:58 PM

try here

http://www.sp5pbe.waw.pl/~sp5smk/spice.html

Code:

su
yum groupinstall "Developmen Tool"
yum install rpmdevtools
wget http://www.sp5pbe.waw.pl/~sp5smk/gspiceui-0.9.33-16.fc7.src.rpm
rpmbuild --rebuild gspiceui-0.9.33-16.fc7.src.rpm

scottro · #4 22nd November 2007, 07:11 PM

I could be wrong, but it seems to me that somewhere along the line, I read that the spec file ignores everything before the version name part. You can put anything you want in that URL, although, of course, it's best practice to put the correct url in there. I don't believe a spec file actually seeks out and downloads the tarbal.

That seems to be correct, judging from, for example, this page. It seems you have to download the source before building.

mildred · #5 23rd November 2007, 12:12 PM

Ok, thanks.
So the url is useless ...

For spice, I successfully installed it, but I still have to learn how to use it (and how to add symbols)
Thanks.

Mildred

lmo · #6 23rd November 2007, 02:20 PM

Study the msttcorefonts spec file here http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

Somehow, it downloaded files.

scottro · #7 23rd November 2007, 04:53 PM

If you look at it, you'll see that he included a function (that I assume he wrote) to do the downloading. It's a separate part of the spec file.

So, Mildred, that's something to consider--putting in a separate command (hrrm, maybe in %prep?) to actually download the source. I'm no expert on spec files, I'm not sure how much work that adds and how it affects things if it's not done before the url line, etc.

However, to go back to the original question, of how come it's asking for the file even though you put in a url, more googling indicated that my memory was correct--it pretty much ignores that url and just looks at the part saying {name}-{version}. Apparently, you could put in a completely fictitious url and it would still work--so long as the tarball is in your SOURCES directory.