checkinstall problem

robertos · 03-13-2007, 08:48 AM

I was trying to user checkinstall to see how it goes.
And in the end i got this:
uilding RPM package... FAILED!

*** Failed to build the package

Do you want to see the log file? [y]: y

This is the log file:

error: line 3: Empty tag: Version:
Building target platforms: i386
Building for target i386

strange that it doesn't says in which file...

bigrigdriver · 03-13-2007, 09:10 AM

When you call checkinstall, doesn't it prompt you for information, such as package name, version number, package type, etc.?

You may have overlooked entering the version number.

GT_Onizuka · 03-13-2007, 09:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigrigdriver

When you call checkinstall, doesn't it prompt you for information, such as package name, version number, package type, etc.?

You may have overlooked entering the version number.

Going along with bigrigdriver, if it doesn't prompt you for a version number, force it to use one with --pkgversion at the command line (check man checkinstall for more details).

robertos · 03-14-2007, 12:19 AM

you are right. it wasn't prompting for verision no. but it allowed me to edit the version number near the end which i did. Than i got an error about md5 failing which i solved it with
rpm - ivh --nomd5 ........

Thanks.

lazlow · 03-14-2007, 01:22 AM

The md5 is pretty important. It guarantees what is there is what is supposed to be there.