Need help with making RPM from v2.x.x branch

[John Dennis]

On 05/08/2013 03:19 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Raithatha, Divyesh
> <divyesh.raithatha at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks, I got past the README but now I am getting the following file not found errors.  They do exist, however, it looks like the build is looking for version 2.2.0 of the library files yet they are listed as 2.2.1.
>>
>>
>> error: File not found: /home/test/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/freeradius-2.2.0-1.el6.x86_64/etc/raddb/certs/README.rst
>
> That's kinda tricky. Look at %files section in the spec file.
>
> The cleanest solution right now would probably be changing "Version:
> 2.2.0" in the top of the make file to 2.2.1, AND rename your source
> bz2 file to freeradius-server-2.2.1.tar.bz2.

The version macro in the spec file, the version embedded in tar file 
name, and the contents of tar file all *MUST* match. You have to be 
precise with what version you're building.

I assumed that was obvious as opposed to being tricky ;-)

>
> Another way would be changing the files section, from (e.g.)
>
> %{_libdir}/freeradius/rlm_acct_unique-%{version}.so
>
> to
>
> %{_libdir}/freeradius/rlm_acct_unique-*.so
>
> ... or even try deleting all rlm_* lines and replace them with a one-liner
>
> %{_libdir}/freeradius/rlm_*.so*
>


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