On Mar 4, 2008, at 5:39 PM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:

> I am new to the rpm world and a little confused by the two rival  
> projects with the same name. Please excuse me if this question  
> should be directed elsewhere.
>

We all are confused ...

> With the 'other' rpm (version 4.4.1) this problem does not occur.  
> With 'this' rpm (4.4.9 and 5.0.3) I see a problem in that path  
> names with dashes "-" are converted to underscores "_" and then rpm  
> fails to find the path. Here is the output from an ant script which  
> creates the relevant paths and then executes the rpmbuild command.
>
>      [copy] Copying 1 file to /Users/Shared/bamboo/xml-data/build- 
> dir/ANGEL-SRV/server/dist/rpm/SPECS
>      [copy] Copying 2 files to /Users/Shared/bamboo/xml-data/build- 
> dir/ANGEL-SRV/server/dist/rpm/SOURCES
>       [rpm] Building the RPM based on the onCourseServer.spec file
>       [rpm] Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /opt/local/var/tmp/rpm- 
> tmp.82429
>       [rpm] + umask 022
>       [rpm] + cd /Users/Shared/bamboo/xml_data/build_dir/ANGEL_SRV/ 
> server/dist/rpm/BUILD
>       [rpm] /opt/local/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.82429: line 25: cd: /Users/ 
> Shared/bamboo/xml_data/build_dir/ANGEL_SRV/server/dist/rpm/BUILD:  
> No such file or directory
>       [rpm] error: Bad exit status from /opt/local/var/tmp/rpm-tmp. 
> 82429 (%install)
>
> The relevant part of the spec file is:
>
> %install
> %{__install} -d -m0755 %{buildroot}/var/db/onCourse
> %{__install} -d -m0755 %{buildroot}/var/log/onCourse
> %{__install} -d -m0755 %{buildroot}/opt/onCourse/
> %{__install} -d -m0755 %{buildroot}/etc/init.d
> %{__install} -m0755 %{SOURCE0} %{buildroot}/opt/onCourse/ 
> onCourseServer.jar
> %{__install} -m0755 %{SOURCE1} %{buildroot}/etc/init.d/onCourseServer
>
>
> And the rpm temp file has this line:
>
> RPM_BUILD_DIR="/Users/Shared/bamboo/xml_data/build_dir/ANGEL_SRV/ 
> server/dist/rpm/BUILD"
>
>
>
> So, why do the dashes in the input path get all converted to  
> underscores and how do I stop it? This doesn't happen with the  
> 'other' rpm, but in this situation I'm stuck using 'this' rpm since  
> I need to build on OSX and the packaging of MacPorts only links  
> here. I guess I could compile the other one up by hand, but I'm  
> hoping this has a simple solution. I also can't change the path  
> naming since other things rely on it.
>

Hmmm ....

I don't know of any code within rpmbuild that converts dashes to  
underscores in file paths.

Nor can I think of any reason that the conversion would be needed on  
a unix-like file system.

Are you building with port(1) or rpmbuild directly? I seem to recall  
port(1) undertaking
certain dash-to-underscore conversions.

If you have a reproducer (i.e. a URI to a src.rpm) that reproduces  
the problem, I'll
try to figure out what is going on.

hth

73 de Jeff



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