Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] rpm-build on SuSE 11.3 fails with "new version string"

[João Valverde <joao.valverde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22-04-2016 14:18, João Valverde wrote:
> On 22-04-2016 12:41, João Valverde wrote:
> > On 22-04-2016 12:31, Anders Broman wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of João Valverde
> > > > Sent: den 22 april 2016 11:05
> > > > To: Developer support list for Wireshark
> > > > Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] rpm-build on SuSE 11.3 fails with "new
> > > > version string"
> > > >
> > > > The problem is also present with old version string for automated
> > > > builds.
> > > >
> > > > How should this string be sanitized for RPM? Is there some best
> > > > practice?
> > >
> > > Well a day or two ago I got further, then it failed with dependency
> > > problems on autoconf and rpmbuild even though I've installed a newer
> > > autoconf from source.
> >
> > For builds from master that bug was indeed introduced with
> > 7c6e859ccf210a45e1cc0f6da17692845e6b5a23.
> >
> > But tarballs from https://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/src/ were
> > affected before that too.
> >
> > Seems easy enough to fix, I'll test and push to Gerrit.
>
> Not nearly as simple as I thought to sanitize the rpm spec file version
> to remove the dash. The build still depends on make dist which depends
> on the autoconf version which has the dash so that generates lots of
> cascading failures.
>
> I don't have any experience with this but I would hope it is a solved
> problem...

... the solution possibly being "don't use dashes in the autotools 
package version if you want to build with rpm".

> > > On 22-04-2016 09:33, Anders Broman wrote:
> > > > tardir=wireshark-2.1.0-git && tar --format=ustar -chf - "$tardir" |
> > > > bzip2 -9 -c >wireshark-2.1.0-git.tar.bz2
> > > >
> > > > { test ! -d wireshark-2.1.0-git || { find wireshark-2.1.0-git -type d !
> > > > -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';' && rm -fr wireshark-2.1.0-git; }; }
> > > >
> > > > error: line 28: Illegal char '-' in version: Version:  2.1.0-git
> > > >
> > > > make: *** [rpm-package] Error 1
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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