[asterisk-users] Building an RPM from Asterisk 1.4

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:54:17PM -0700, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> Ok, so I'm no rpm expert, but Asterisk 1.4.11 comes with an asterisk.spec
> file. Running rpmbuild against it yields errors, the first one being that
> the 'Copyright' tag is unknown, and that I need a License tag instead.
> 
> Fixed that, and...
> 
> Processing files: asterisk-CVS-1
> error: File not found: /tmp/asterisk/etc/asterisk
> error: File not found by glob: /tmp/asterisk/etc/asterisk/*.conf
> error: File not found by glob: /tmp/asterisk/etc/asterisk/*.adsi
> error: File not found: /tmp/asterisk/etc/asterisk/extensions.ael
> error: File not found: /tmp/asterisk/etc/rc.d/init.d/asterisk
> 
> .... And so on. What am I missing here? Why doesn't rpm build the
> /tmp/asterisk directory itself? 

So you'll catch those errors.

> Why is it looking for files that obviously
> don't exist?

That spec uses quite a few discourged methods for rpm packages. There
are a number of well-maintained RPM packages of Asterisk. Use one of
them or modify one of them.

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