Spec file help

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 23:33:36 +0000, Gavin Henry wrote:

> done that. All amendments are done on the previous spec on 
> http://suretecsystem.com/docs/netmon_applet.spec

$ host suretecsystem.com
Host suretecsystem.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

=> http://www.suretecsystems.com/docs/netmon_applet.spec

> I get loads of:
> 
> Recursion depth(17) greater than max(16)
>     File not 
> found: /var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/var/tmp/netmon_applet-/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/netmon_applet.debug
> (sorry for the length)
> 
> I think the rm -rf in %install is causing this??

Nah. Someone else made a wrong suggestion leading to recursion here:

> BuildRoot      : %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{buildroot}

You want:

BuildRoot      : %{_tmppath}/%{name}-buildroot

> This is just for fedora.
> 
> >
> > gnome-panel, gtk2 and libgnomeui > 2.0.0 were available in Red Hat Linux
> > 8.0 already. If there's a specific reason why an explicit dependency [and
> > even a versioned one] is needed, that should be documented in the spec
> > file.
> 
> I have documented this with a # should be a %description type thing or can I 
> just use the # for comments?

It doesn't really belong into the package description. gtk2 is part
of the distribution anyway.

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