On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 22:20 +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > According to http://www.rpm.org/api/4.4.2.2/specfile.html a > Version: tag can contain a hyphen, as the tarball for the source > I am compiling is named 2.3-pre4 etc. > > When I try to build it I get an error about the illegal char? > > Anyone know about the discrepancy between the docs and RHEL's > rpmbuild? Without recreating a new tarball and bungling the name > how does one gracefully handle this? > > Thanks! > jlc --- Ok Special Attention here: Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/inotify-tools-3.13-3.el5-root-ethan Wrote: /home/ethan/rpmbuild/SRPMS/inotify-tools-3.13-3.el5.src.rpm Wrote: /home/ethan/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/inotify-tools-3.13-3.el5.i386.rpm Wrote: /home/ethan/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/inotify-tools-devel-3.13-3.el5.i386.rpm Wrote: /home/ethan/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/inotify-tools-debuginfo-3.13-3.el5.i386.rpm ############################################################################ inotify-tools/spec ############################################################################ Name: inotify-tools Version: 3.13 Release: 3%{?dist} ## Here is you wanted `-`... ## Summary: Command line utilities for inotify Release: pre4%{?dist} John