Help with Mock error

[Alec Leamas]

On 03/13/2012 10:10 AM, Amit Saha wrote:
> On 03/13/2012 07:48 PM, Alec Leamas wrote:
>> On 03/13/2012 08:58 AM, Amit Saha wrote:
>>> Hello:
>>>
>>> On 03/13/2012 06:50 PM, Alec Leamas wrote:
>>>> On 03/13/2012 08:43 AM, Alec Leamas wrote:
>>>>> On 03/13/2012 07:21 AM, Amit Saha wrote:
>>>>>> Hello:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am in the process of building my first package [1], and have got
>>>>>> most of it sorted. 'rpmbuild -ba' executes successfully with the
>>>>>> current SPEC file[3].
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, the SRPM [2] fails in Mock with the error:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> RPM build errors:
>>>>>> File not found by glob:
>>>>>> /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/python-picloud-2.4.2-3.fc16.i386/usr/bin/*
>>>>>> Child return code was: 1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am not sure why? (Having the incorrect %{_bindir}/ in the SPEC 
>>>>>> file
>>>>>> passes successfully).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799810
>>>>>> [2]
>>>>>> http://amitksaha.fedorapeople.org/contribs/picloud_packaging/python-picloud-2.4.2-3.fc16.src.rpm 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [3]
>>>>>> http://amitksaha.fedorapeople.org/contribs/picloud_packaging/python-picloud.spec 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am probably missing something very basic here. Kindly suggest.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>> Amit
>>>>>>
>>>>> The spec most likely doesn't put anything in $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin.
>>>>> To verify, run rpmbuild -bi <your spec>, and look into
>>>>> ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/python-picloud-2.4.2* to find out what the thing
>>>>> actually installs
>>>>>
>>>> Oops... that should be "Look into
>>>> ~/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/python-picloud-2.4.2* to find out..."
>>>
>>> Just checked it. It places the 'picloud' binary in
>>> ~/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/python-picloud-2.4.2-3.fc16/usr/bin .
>>>
>>> -Amit
>>>
>> What a mess... I think I would run a mock build with the
>> --no-cleanup-after flag, and then a mock --shell. This way you should be
>> able to see what's built in mock in a similar way to rpmbuild -bi.
>
> I did that. I think I should expect to see 'picloud' in /usr/bin and 
> the man pages in /usr/share/man/man1/ ? I don't see any of after i do 
> mock --shell.
Yes, they should be there.
>
> From the build.log, the last few lines are:
>
> + cp -pr doc README.txt CHANGELOG 
> /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/python-picloud-2.4.2-3.fc16.i386/usr/share/doc/python-picloud-2.4.2
> + exit 0
> RPM build errors:
>     File not found by glob: 
> /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/python-picloud-2.4.2-3.fc16.i386/usr/bin/*
> Child return code was: 1
>
>
> So, obviously something is wrong. What else I can look into?
>
> Thanks!
> -Amit
>
>
I guess our common understanding is that the %install has failed... 
sometimes, the installation paths are wrong. Have you looked into the 
complete /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/python-picloud-2.4.2-3.fc16.i386 tree 
to see if the %install has placed in other places there?