[Fedora-packaging] EL5 build trouble - .desktop vendor

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:40:12 +1000, DT (David) wrote:

> My new package got build error: (only on EL5)
> 
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3209896
> 
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=3209896&name=build.log&offset=-4000
> 
> + mkdir -p 
> /var/tmp/tnef-1.4.8-4.1.el5-root-mockbuild//usr/share/mimelnk/application/
> + desktop-file-install 
> --dir=/var/tmp/tnef-1.4.8-4.1.el5-root-mockbuild/usr/share/mimelnk/application 
> /builddir/build/SOURCES/vnd.ms-tnef.desktop
> Must specify the vendor namespace for these files with --vendor
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.3965 (%install)
> RPM build errors:
> 
> 
> As I understand it, we are not supposed to include a --vendor value 
> unless it was a pre-existing package that already had a vendor value.
> 
> Is there a special case for EL5 ?
> 
> If so, is it Fedora or EPEL ?

Have you tried  --vendor ""  yet?