On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 00:27:53 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > > I guess it might be helpful to know the difference between a desktop
> > > and a desktop.in file. Could someone please tell me about this
> > > difference?
A *.in file is an input/include file, i.e. a template file that is
taken by a tool to generate the complete output file by filling in the
missing details (such as unexpanded variables).
> The app looks cool and the current developer (who I contacted) is a high
> school student but does not know much about packaging for Fedora. He did
> suggest using Alien for creating the spec file from the debian package (but
> he did not know much about it, and I had not even heard about it) so I passed
> on that. I also thought that perhaps the debian package needs a Debian
> machine.
>
Do some trouble-shooting. As a first step, forget rpmbuild. Run the
same commands you run in %build and %install in your terminal. If
the commands fail, you need to fix the source code and cannot blame
rpmbuild or the spec file.
> Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.X1IL6J
> [...]
> running install_egg_info
> Writing
> /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/typhoon-0.8.9.4-1.fc22.x86_64/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/typhoon-0.8.94-py2.7.egg-info
> ("ERROR: Can't find",
> '/home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/typhoon-0.8.9.4-1.fc22.x86_64/usr/share/applications/typhoon.desktop')
> [...]
You may need to debug install_egg_info for this piece of software. This
error is not a spec file error, because your spec %files section does not
refer to this .desktop file anywhere [yet]. If the file were installed
into the buildroot, you would see a different error (rpmbuild complaining
about installed files not present in %files section).
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