Barry, Thanks very much for this!
On Sun Nov30'25 04:20:06PM, Barry Scott wrote: > From: Barry Scott <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:20:06 +0000 > To: Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]> > CC: Ranjan Maitra <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT: rpmbuild SPEC error > > > > > On 27 Nov 2025, at 15:29, Ranjan Maitra via users > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I posted this twice earlier, but it did not show up because the error > > message it moving it a tad more than 60KB which makes it require moderator > > approval (which may well be delayed because of the holiday weekend in the > > US). So, here is a repost. Hopefully, someone can get to it before the > > 24-hour clock on the fpaste runs out (I do not see how to increase that > > time.) > > > > > > I am the package maintainer of SLiM, the Simple Login Manager. While trying > > to take care of an automated BZ request, I decided to look into also > > updating the package. > > > > Because upstream is not very responsive, as the author is sadly indisposed > > for the long-term, I moved the code to github at > > https://github.com/maitra/slim-fork after having made some of the > > corrections (suggested earlier here) which make the package compile without > > error. And also bumped up the cmakeminimum which is what triggered the BZ > > request. > > > > However, when I go to build the RPM with the spec file, I get an error. > > > > THe spec file is here: https://paste.centos.org/view/96e6b7db > > No longer a live link Yes, sadly so, because of the 23:59 limit at paste.centos.org. Uploading now. $ fpaste slim.spec Uploading (20.0KiB)... https://paste.centos.org/view/ae7eedab > > > > > However, I get an error which does not show up when I do the compilation > > outside the spec file, which is really perplexing to me so my guess is that > > the problem is with the spec file, and I wonder if anyone more knowledgable > > on SPEC files can give me some suggestions. > > > > Here are the errors I get when I run rpmbuild -bb slim.spec. > > > > https://paste.centos.org/view/8f71e2c5 > Now at: Uploading (83.8KiB)... https://paste.centos.org/view/97a6fc4a > > Where are you doing the builds, Fedora Koji. Copr or just local to your PC? > Right now, just local to my PC. I have forgotten: don't I need to have a working SRPM to upload to koji? Perhaps not. Anyway, thanks again for your response! Perhaps the error messages can shed some light (along with the SPEC file). Best wishes, Ranjan -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
