attempt to delete non-existent directory during redhat 9 rpm build

[Galen Seitz]

Hi,

While building cvs 1.11.14 on a redhat 9 system, I got the following 
error:

+ gzip /var/tmp/cvs-root//usr/share/info/cvs.info 
/var/tmp/cvs-root//usr/share/info/cvs.info-1 
/var/tmp/cvs-root//usr/share/info/cvs.info-2 
/var/tmp/cvs-root//usr/share/info/cvs.info-3 
/var/tmp/cvs-root//usr/share/info/cvs.info-4 
/var/tmp/cvs-root//usr/share/info/cvs.info-5 
/var/tmp/cvs-root//usr/share/info/cvs.info-6
/var/tmp/cvs-root//usr/share/info/cvs.info-7 
/var/tmp/cvs-root//usr/share/info/cvs.info-8 
/var/tmp/cvs-root//usr/share/info/cvs.info-9 
/var/tmp/cvs-root//usr/share/info/cvsclient.info 
/var/tmp/cvs-root//usr/share/info/cvsclient.info-1 
/var/tmp/cvs-root//usr/share/info/cvsclient.info-2 
/var/tmp/cvs-root//usr/share/info/cvsclient.info-3
+ rm /var/tmp/cvs-root//usr/share/info/dir
rm: cannot lstat `/var/tmp/cvs-root//usr/share/info/dir': No such file or 
directory
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.1900 (%install)
 
 
RPM build errors:
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.1900 (%install)



Here is the command line I used:
rpmbuild -tb cvs-1.11.14.tar.bz2 >& cvs.log &


To 'fix' the problem, I added -f to this line in the spec file.
rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_infodir}/dir
   ^^

I don't know if that is the correct fix, but it worked for me.  From the
cvs.spec changelog, it looks like this rm command is a recent addition.
I'm not sure why the file/directory in question did not exist in my 
build tree.


thanks,
galen