Am 04.11.2011 09:08, schrieb Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger:

Your spec file is incomplete.

You lack a %prep, %build and %install section as a bare minimum

http://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2009/05/rpm-packaging-for-beginners/ might have some hints for you.

Well, this happens when you get your specfile from a spec-collection on kde-apps.org.... okay, thanks, so i will go to rewrite it, i guess. thanks, --kdl -- -o) Kim Leyendecker /\\ openSUSE Ambassador, openSUSE Wiki Team DE _\_v http://www.opensuse.org - Linux for open minds -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org

Am 04.11.2011 13:46, schrieb Malcolm:

On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 13:17:45 +0100 Kim Leyendecker wrote:

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Am 04.11.2011 09:08, schrieb Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger:

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Your spec file is incomplete.

You lack a %prep, %build and %install section as a bare minimum

http://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2009/05/rpm-packaging-for-beginners/ might have some hints for you.

Well, this happens when you get your specfile from a spec-collection on kde-apps.org....

okay, thanks, so i will go to rewrite it, i guess.

thanks, --kdl

Hi Run spec-cleaner on it, should fix most of it?

I did it, but before I rewrote my spec-file according to the SUSE guidelines (used rpmdev-newspec for that). Due to this, there wasn´t any big changes and the build still fails. --kdl -- -o) Kim Leyendecker /\\ openSUSE Ambassador, openSUSE Wiki Team DE _\_v http://www.opensuse.org - Linux for open minds -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org

It´s now building, but it still fails. Seems like the make worked out well, but it can´t be packaged. Have I to add the following to the %files section? RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/local/bin/aclocal /usr/local/bin/aclocal-1.11 /usr/local/bin/automake /usr/local/bin/automake-1.11 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/amversion.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/as.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/auxdir.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/ccstdc.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/cond-if.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/cond.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/depend.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/depout.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/dmalloc.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/gcj.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/header.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/init.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/install-sh.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/lead-dot.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/lex.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/lispdir.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/maintainer.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/make.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/minuso.m4 /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/missing.m4 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/usr/local/share/automake-1.11/config.sub /usr/local/share/automake-1.11/depcomp /usr/local/share/automake-1.11/elisp-comp /usr/local/share/automake-1.11/install-sh /usr/local/share/automake-1.11/mdate-sh /usr/local/share/automake-1.11/missing /usr/local/share/automake-1.11/mkinstalldirs /usr/local/share/automake-1.11/py-compile /usr/local/share/automake-1.11/symlink-tree /usr/local/share/automake-1.11/texinfo.tex /usr/local/share/automake-1.11/ylwrap /usr/local/share/doc/automake/amhello-1.0.tar.gz /usr/local/share/info/automake.info /usr/local/share/info/automake.info-1 /usr/local/share/info/automake.info-2 /usr/local/share/info/dir /usr/local/share/man/man1/aclocal-1.11.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/aclocal.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/automake-1.11.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/automake.1 -- -o) Kim Leyendecker /\\ openSUSE Ambassador, openSUSE Wiki Team DE _\_v http://www.opensuse.org - Linux for open minds -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To 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On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Kim Leyendecker wrote:

Am 04.11.2011 09:08, schrieb Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger:

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Your spec file is incomplete.

You lack a %prep, %build and %install section as a bare minimum

http://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2009/05/rpm-packaging-for-beginners/ might have some hints for you.

Well, this happens when you get your specfile from a spec-collection on kde-apps.org....

okay, thanks, so i will go to rewrite it, i guess.

thanks,        --kdl

Kim, The below is all based on the WebUI which is my favorite way to admin my OBS packages. Also I have tried to consistent and accurate of my use of the terms project and package. I assume you know the difference. As implied by others, the first place you should look for openSUSE compatible specfiles is OBS. By that I mean build.opensuse.org, not software.opensuse.org. Searching at software.opensuse.org is cumbersome and it is very easy to miss relevant packages. In particular it rarely finds packages that are new and only in factory. But using the search box at the top right of build.opensuse.org gives a list of relevant packages. Searching for "automake" I see about 50 or so versions. (Don't ask me why so many?) Then I normally scan down and try to find one in a devel project that seems appropriate. Then you 2 choices for branching a copy of the devel package to your home. One is to go to the devel package overview and click "branch". (You have to be logged in to get the branch option.) That will create a sub-project called branch-devel-project in you home project. And populate it with a branched version of the package. Especially if you just want to work on the package standalone, fix it, submit it, and delete it, that's nice and easy. But often I want to branch the package to a specific sub-project of mine. To do that, I go to my sub-project, list of packages, "branch new package". It then asks for the name of the project and package I want to branch from. I especially use this method if my source is someone else's home project. I don't want to have a bunch of other people's home projects branched to me. I just want their packages branched. The cool think about branching is it tracks the changes you make, so from the file listing page you can get a list of the differences and easily submit those changes back to the original project where the maintainer can review, accept, reject them. Greg

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On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Kim Leyendecker wrote:

Am 04.11.2011 16:33, schrieb Greg Freemyer:

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Kim,

The below is all based on the WebUI which is my favorite way to admin my OBS packages.  Also I have tried to consistent and accurate of my use of the terms project and package.  I assume you know the difference.

As implied by others, the first place you should look for openSUSE compatible specfiles is OBS.

By that I mean build.opensuse.org, not software.opensuse.org.

Searching at software.opensuse.org is cumbersome and it is very easy to miss relevant packages.  In particular it rarely finds packages that are new and only in factory.

But using the search box at the top right of build.opensuse.org gives a list of relevant packages.

Searching for "automake" I see about 50 or so versions.  (Don't ask me why so many?)

Then I normally scan down and try to find one in a devel project that seems appropriate.

Then you 2 choices for branching a copy of the devel package to your home.

One is to go to the devel package overview and click "branch". (You have to be logged in to get the branch option.)

That will create a sub-project called branch-devel-project in you home project.  And populate it with a branched version of the package. Especially if you just want to work on the package standalone, fix it, submit it, and delete it, that's nice and easy.

But often I want to branch the package to a specific sub-project of mine.  To do that, I go to my sub-project, list of packages, "branch new package".  It then asks for the name of the project and package I want to branch from.  I especially use this method if my source is someone else's home project.  I don't want to have a bunch of other people's home projects branched to me.  I just want their packages branched.

The cool think about branching is it tracks the changes you make, so from the file listing page you can get a list of the differences and easily submit those changes back to the original project where the maintainer can review, accept, reject them.

Hi Greg,

 thanks for your answer, but I actually tried to package it my own to practise packaging at all. I know, I could have branched it, but that wasn´t my goal. I actually try to learn packaging and writing spec-files and I still believe that the best way to get knowledge in it is the learning by doing kind of stuff. So that´s what I´m doing with automake.

So, I guess the best solution now is, that I read Dominique´s blog post again and then start another try.

thanks for your help!        --kdl

In that case, I would also reference this simple skeleton specfile: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2010-11/msg00146.html Last time I made a specfile from scratch, that's what I started from. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org