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RE: rpm-build-4.1-1 incompatible with tar-1.16.1-1


On 27 December 2006 12:40, Dick wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using rpmbuild to build a RPM package from a tarball but it doesn't
> work: 
> 
> $ rpmbuild -ta SOURCES/daco-0.tar.gz
> error: Failed to rename /home/eeto003/SPECS/rpm-spec.LpULlm to
> /home/dick/SPECS/tar: Pattern matching characters used in file names.
Please,: m 
> 
> It seems like tar needs the --wildcards parameter

  That's not what it looks like to me.  Look at that stray ": m" at the end of
the line.  It looks to me like you have a stray CR-LF line-ending somewhere,
and the error message is partially self-overwriting.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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