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No RPM builds

Wed, 2006–Dec–27

For version 1.0.5, released in December 2006, the noarch.rpm file is not available.
Reason is mentioned in the CHANGES file, more details in this forum posting.

The command used to build the RPM file:
python setup.py bdist_rpm
fails with these errors now:
RPM build errors:
Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
/usr/bin/blockhosts.pyc
/usr/bin/blockhosts.pyo

From the BlockHosts CHANGES file:
* Not including noarch.rpm with this release - the scripts that used to
work, no longer work, and from searching on the web, this may be
a distutils/rpmbuild interaction problem. For now, use the non-RPM
install instructions to install this program, INSTALL has details.
Web search yielded someone else running into what looks like the same problem: distutils-sig@python.org/msg02536
But the fix mentioned in that email thread did not fix blockhosts rpm
build.

‹ Consecutive login attempts ParsingError File contains Parsing errors: /etc/blockhosts.cfg [line126]: '}\n' ›
Thu, 2006-12-28 18:58 — Michael Mansour (not verified)

To build RPM, try this

Hi,

I have experienced this problem before when building another package, try this:

echo "%_unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0" >> /etc/rpm/macros

then build from your spec.

Regards,

Michael.

Fri, 2006-12-29 15:54 — ac

fixes it

Thanks, this works around the problem, RPM version now available.

Thu, 2007-01-11 02:49 — Michael Mansour (not verified)

Another thing which may be more correct

Hi ac,

I thought you'd like to know, a similar problem was found with the latest proftpd 1.3.1rc1 spec file:

Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /usr/src/packages/BUILD/proftpd-1.3.1rc1-root
error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
/usr/include/proftpd/auth.h
/usr/include/proftpd/bindings.h
/usr/include/proftpd/buildstamp.h
/usr/include/proftpd/child.h
/usr/include/proftpd/class.h
/usr/include/proftpd/compat.h

and what fixed this (maybe more correctly than the "ignore" I notified about before) was this:

adding "%{prefix}/include/proftpd/*" to the %files section in proftpd.spec

So in terms of blockhosts you're getting this:

RPM build errors:
Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
/usr/bin/blockhosts.pyc
/usr/bin/blockhosts.pyo

it might be an indea to try adding:

%{prefix}/bin/*

to the %files section in your spec file which will capture both the .pyc and .pyo files (even though I doubt we need them since they look like python out files which can usually be ignored).

Regards,

Michael.