[Gambas-user] Bug in IDE packager for rpm packages

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 05/05/2015 23:28, Willy at ...3475... a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> A user on the Gambas forum reported having trouble making rpm packages
> using IDE.
>
> We had some discussion on the topic to check if all requirements where
> installed to build rpm packages on Ubuntu. They where but when making
> packages for one of the rpm distro's Gambas threw an error.
>
> I managed isolate the cause of the problem being the name used in the
> project. The persons project was named ListBox+.
>
> Seems the added + to the project name turns out to be a problem for
> making rpm packages (deb packages build just fine).
>
> I tried and succeeded in replicating the error as follows:
> I opened a new empty qt4 project and named it MyBox+.
> Next I tried making a  rpm package for Fedora.
>
> This is the error returned:
>
> ========================================
>
> Pakket aanmaken voor Fedora / RedHat / CentOS.
>
> ========================================
>
> Gereed maken ~/RPM map.
> Broncode pakket aanmaken.
> .spec bestand aanmaken.
> Pakket aanmaken...
>
> rpmbuild -ba '/home/willy/RPM/SPECS/mybox+.spec'
> Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /home/willy/RPM/tmp/rpm-tmp.pebI7j
> + umask 022
> + cd /home/willy/RPM/BUILD
> + rm -rf /home/willy/RPM/BUILDROOT/mybox+-0.0.1-1.i386
> + cd /home/willy/RPM/BUILD
> + rm -rf MyBox+
> + + /bin/tar -xf -
> /bin/bzip2 -dc /home/willy/RPM/SOURCES/mybox+-0.0.1.tar.bz2
> + STATUS=0
> + [ 0 -ne 0 ]
> + cd MyBox+
> + /bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w .
> + exit 0
> Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /home/willy/RPM/tmp/rpm-tmp.DojBTv
> + umask 022
> + cd /home/willy/RPM/BUILD
> + cd MyBox+
> + /usr/bin/gbc3 -e -a -g -x
> OK
> + gba3
> + exit 0
> Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /home/willy/RPM/tmp/rpm-tmp.uHcvWH
> + umask 022
> + cd /home/willy/RPM/BUILD
> + cd MyBox+
> + install -d /home/willy/RPM/BUILDROOT/mybox+-0.0.1-1.i386//usr/bin
> + install -p MyBox+.gambas /home/willy/RPM/BUILDROOT/mybox
> +-0.0.1-1.i386//usr/bin/MyBox+
> + install -d /home/willy/RPM/BUILDROOT/mybox
> +-0.0.1-1.i386//usr/share/pixmaps
> + install -d /home/willy/RPM/BUILDROOT/mybox
> +-0.0.1-1.i386//usr/share/applications
> + install -p .icon/48.png /home/willy/RPM/BUILDROOT/mybox
> +-0.0.1-1.i386//usr/share/pixmaps/MyBox+.png
> + cat
> + /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
> + /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip /usr/bin/strip
> + /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-static-archive /usr/bin/strip
> + /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note /usr/bin/strip /usr/bin/objdump
> Processing files: mybox+-0.0.1-1.noarch
> error: File not found: /home/willy/RPM/BUILDROOT/mybox
> +-0.0.1-1.i386/usr/bin/'MyBox+'
> error: File not found: /home/willy/RPM/BUILDROOT/mybox
> +-0.0.1-1.i386/usr/share/pixmaps/'MyBox+'.png
>
>
> RPM build errors:
>      File not found: /home/willy/RPM/BUILDROOT/mybox
> +-0.0.1-1.i386/usr/bin/'MyBox+'
>      File not found: /home/willy/RPM/BUILDROOT/mybox
> +-0.0.1-1.i386/usr/share/pixmaps/'MyBox+'.png
>
> Het pakket maken is mislukt.
> Package.MakeRpmPackage.1420: 'rpmbuild' heeft de volgende foutcode
> teruggestuurd: 1
>
> ==============End of error report=============
>
> My impression is that the added single quotes to the project name
> confuse the rpm builder (see lines after above RPM build errors)
>
> Note that I can make rpm packages from Gambas IDE for other projects
> (without the added + to the project name).
>
>

It seems that rpm or deb packages usually cannot handle characters that 
are not a letter or a digit. I didn't find any documentation that tells 
me exactly which characters are really allowed in a package name.

Maybe I should prevent that by automatically replace these characters by 
something else when making the package.

Anyway, it's better to use only digits and letters in your project name!

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini