| Subject: | Invalid tarball directory - error: Bad exit status (%prep) |
It doesn't do so well when the directory created by the tarball
doesn't match exactly with what the tarball name is.
$ cpan2rpm MIME-tools
-- cpan2rpm - Ver: 2.011 --
Searching CPAN website
Found URL
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/E/ER/ERYQ/MIME-tools-5.411a.tar.gz
Tarball extraction:
[/home/rob/redhat/SOURCES/MIME-tools-5.411a.tar.gz]
Metadata retrieval
Generating spec file
Generating package
error: line 15: Unknown tag: ___ _ _ _ _ ___ _
[...]
$ vi ~/redhat/SPECS/MIME-tools.spec
# fix messed vendor as explained in Bug #2061
$ rpmbuild -ba ~/redhat/SPECS/MIME-tools.spec
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.32105
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/rob/redhat/BUILD
+ cd /home/rob/redhat/BUILD
+ rm -rf MIME-tools-5.411a
+ /bin/gzip -dc /home/rob/redhat/SOURCES/MIME-tools-5.411a.tar.gz
+ tar -xf -
+ STATUS=0
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ cd MIME-tools-5.411a
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.32105: cd: MIME-tools-5.411a: No such file or
directory
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.32105 (%prep)
RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.32105 (%prep)