[bt-devel] Bibletime RPM for Red Hat 8

[Joachim Ansorg]

Steven,

I read all your eMails and I'm glad that you want to help us with the RPM 
stuff on RedHat.

I hope to find time to check why the original SPEC doesn't work,
Joachim


> Hello, Everyone :)
> I apologize if you have already received the below quoted e-mail, but I
> am sending it again as I haven't received a response to this, or the
> other email I sent on this subject.  I checked the archives for May, and
> all my messages about my desire to build Bibletime RPM's for Red Hat 8
> are there, so I assume that for some odd reason that you did not receive
> them.
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Hello, Everyone :)
> I just successfully made an RPM for Red Hat 8 of the current CVS of
> Bibletime.  I uploaded it to the following location:
> http://www.faith4miracle.org/bibletime-1.4pre-1.i386.rpm
>
> PLEASE NOTE: I incorrectly named it "1.4pre"  Please disregard this :)
> I made it from a .spec file that I've had success with when building
> RPMS for the Krename project.  I had absolutely no success with the spec
> file from Bibletime.  Please check out the spec file I used at the
> following location:
> http://www.faith4miracle.org/bibletime.spec
>
> I uninstalled my previous installation of Bibletime, and reinstalled
> using the exact same RPM that I uploaded to the above mentioned
> location, and everything seems to work fine, right down to the new icons
> (the ones James made) that I included in the source code, and the
> documentation seems to work as well.
>
> This is only an experiment :)  Please check out the spec file I used and
> reccomend all changes that are needed, or send me a file that I can use
> that will suit our purposes better :)  Here is a quote from an email I
> sent the list a few weeks ago that I never got a response on, that shows
> the error message (with a few appropriate comments that I added) that I
> got when I tried to build from what I thought was a suitibly edited
>
> Mandrake spec file:
> > Hello, Everyone :)
> > I'm just practicing on making RPM's for the next release of Bibletime
> > by trying to make one out of the CVS build.
> > When I run rpmbuild -ba bibletime.spec, I get the following error:
> > ++ /usr/bin/id -u
> > + '[' 0 = 0 ']'
> > + /bin/chgrp -Rhf root .
> > + /bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,g-w,o-w .
> > + tar jxvf '%{SOURCE2}'
> > tar (child): %{SOURCE2}: Cannot open: No such file or directory
> > tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> > tar: Child returned status 2
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.51181 (%prep)
> >
> >
> > RPM build errors:
> >     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.51181 (%prep)
> >
> >
> > If I comment out the entire section of the spec file that was being
> > performed when the error occured, like in the following quote:
> >
> > %setup -q
> > #tar jxvf %{SOURCE2}
> > #if [ %{ostype} = "Mandrake" ] ; then
> > # %if %build_menus
> > #  #Icons for Mandrake menu system
> > #  tar jxvf %{SOURCE1}
> > # %endif
> > # export KDEDIR=/usr QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3
> > #elif [ %{ostype} = "SuSE" ] ; then
> > # export KDEDIR=/opt/kde3 QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3
> > #else
> > #	echo "Using $KDEDIR as KDE directory";
> > #	echo "Using $QTDIR as QT directory";
> > #	echo "If the directories are not correct please set them using
> > #	\"export KDEDIR=<KDE directory> QTDIR=<QT directory>\"" sleep 5
> > #fi
> >
> >
> > things flow along smoothly for quite some time, until the build
> > crashes with the following error:
> >
> >
> > + cat
> > + /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-compress
> > + /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip /usr/bin/strip
> > + /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-static-archive /usr/bin/strip
> > + /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-comment-note /usr/bin/strip
> > /usr/bin/objdump
> > Processing files: bibletime-1.3-1
> > error: File must begin with "/": @RPM_PREFIX@/share/config/bt-printing
> > error: File must begin with "/": @RPM_PREFIX@/bin/bibletime
> > error: File must begin with "/":
> > @RPM_PREFIX@/share/applnk/Applications/*
> > error: File must begin with "/": @RPM_PREFIX@/share/apps/bibletime/*
> > error: File must begin with "/": @RPM_PREFIX@/share/icons/*
> >
> >
> > RPM build errors:
> >     File must begin with "/": @RPM_PREFIX@/share/config/bt-printing
> >     File must begin with "/": @RPM_PREFIX@/bin/bibletime
> >     File must begin with "/": @RPM_PREFIX@/share/applnk/Applications/*
> >     File must begin with "/": @RPM_PREFIX@/share/apps/bibletime/*
> >     File must begin with "/": @RPM_PREFIX@/share/icons/*
> >
> > As this was just an experiment, I just ran "make distclean" on my CVS
> > copy of Bibletime, renamed my Bibletime CVS directory from "bibletime"
> > to "bibletime-1.3", did "tar -cf bibletime-1.3.tar", and then did
> > "bzip2 bibletime-1.3.tar"  I copied the spec file to
> > "/usr/src/redhat/SPECS", and copied the source to
> > "/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES" and then ran"rpmbuild -ba bibletime.spec"
> > from the directory with the spec file in it.
>
> Have a Great Day, everyone :)
> Steven P. Ulrick
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Joachim Ansorg
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