Re: rpmbuild does not work

[Adam Fedor]

On 2006-01-17 01:06:52 -0700 Menno Deij <mennodeij@eml.cc> wrote:

> When I try to build the source rpm files on Fedora Core 4, I get the
> following error message
>
> > rpmbuild --rebuild gnustep-back-0.9.4-1.src.rpm
> Installing gnustep-back-0.9.4-1.src.rpm
> warning: user fedor does not exist - using root
> warning: group fedor does not exist - using root
> error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright
> error: line 21: Unknown tag: Copyright: LGPL
>
> Some initial googling seems to suggest that the Copyright tag is not
> supported anymore in rpm 4.0; it's replaced by License

Thanks. I really haven't kept the rpms up-to-date. You're probably 
better off compiling from source unless you can find a distribution 
that carries GNUstep.