Building Freeradius RPM on Redhat ES 4.0

[B Thompson]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:47:13AM +0100, B Thompson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 07:32:23PM -0400, King, Michael wrote:
> 
> > cp: will not overwrite just-created
> > `/var/tmp/freeradius-root/usr/share/doc/freeradius-1.1.3/README' with
> > `README'
> > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.49148 (%doc)
> 
> I get this error too. It looks like line 102 in the spec file is
> causing it :-
> 
> %doc doc/* LICENSE COPYRIGHT CREDITS README
> 
> Should this line simply be :
> 
> %doc doc/*
> 
> This change allows the package to build on my system but when I try to
> install the rpm I get the following message :-
> 
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         /usr/local/bin/perl is needed by freeradius-1.1.3-0.i386


Having googled about for this I removed /usr/local/bin from my path
and ran rpmbuild again. This time everything worked OK.


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Ben Thompson
University of York