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

[Ron]

Indeed hard to find official documentation about this subject.

I have found this though:

"Package names (both source and binary, see Package, Section 5.6.7)
must consist only of lower case letters (a-z), digits (0-9), plus (+)
and minus (-) signs, and periods (.). They must be at least two
characters long and must start with an alphanumeric character."

source: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Source

Regards,
Ron.

2015-05-06 1:25 GMT+02:00 Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...>:
> 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
>
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