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Addressing: error: Package already exists: %package debuginfo
When building SRPMs prepared prior to rpm-4.2, the effort
occasionally fail with this confusing message:
error: Package already exists: %package debuginfo
This is an artifact of the addition of changes in the macro expansions
which scan for an %install stanza, and produce a new
-debuginfo result package. It is sensitive to, and complains
about 'extra' %install stanzas.
Unfortunately, it is a bit over-sensitive as to what is actuially a
%install stanza.
It picks up a %install in a comment line -- and this triggers
the error message and stops the build. This is a correct behaviour in that
the macro expansion logic does some substitutions which can remove from the
scope of a comment the results of an expanded %install; but it is
disconcerting.
Let's walk through an example, and the fix:
[herrold@gateway2000 SPECS]$ rpmbuild -ba xfce.spec
error: Package already exists: %package debuginfo
herrold@gateway2000 SPECS]$ cp xfce.spec xfce.spec.nodebuginfofix
herrold@gateway2000 SPECS]$ joe xfce.spec
Processing '/etc/joe/joerc'...done
Processing '/etc/joe/joerc'...done
[herrold@gateway2000 SPECS]$ diff -u xfce.spec.nodebuginfofix xfce.spec
--- xfce.spec.nodebuginfofix 2003-10-10 09:05:36.000000000 -0400
+++ xfce.spec 2003-10-10 09:05:58.000000000 -0400
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
- general cleanups to make it a bit easier to maintain
- configure to build section
- quiet setup
-- no more %pre/preun or %post/postun sections, not needed (done in %install instead)
+- no more %pre/preun or %post/postun sections, not needed (done in %_install instead)
- no more posinstall messages being displayed
- cleaned up %files section
- gzip man pages
[herrold@gateway2000 herrold]$ rpmbuild --rebuild xfce-3.8.18-1.src.rpm
Installing xfce-3.8.18-1.src.rpm
[... big snip ...]
+ cd /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ rm -rf xfce-3.8.18
+ exit 0
[herrold@gateway2000 herrold]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
[herrold@gateway2000 herrold]$
... and we have a clean rebuild on RHL 9.
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Last updated: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:28:39 -0400
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