I am packaging a very simple rpm of a redmine plugin, for internal use, and I am stuck with a "Package has no %description:" error.
The .spec has a description and I couldn't find anything relevant on the inet. Here goes my .spec:
codeName: redmine_knowledgebase
Version: 2.2.1
Release: 1%{?dist}
Summary: Redmine plugin to add knowledgbase functionality
Group: redmine-plugins
License: MIT
URL: https://github.com/alexbevi/redmine_knowledgebase
Source0: redmine_knowledgebase.tar.gz
BuildRoot: %(mktemp -ud %{tmp/%{name}-%{version}-%{release})
BuildRequires:
Requires: redmine, ruby, rubygems
%description
Redmine plugin to add knowledgbase functionality
%prep
%setup -q -n redmine_knowledgebase
%build
%install
rm -rf %{buildroot}
install -m 0755 / /var/www/redmine/plugins/
bundle install
rake redmine:plugins:migrate NAME=redmine_knowledgebase
%clean
rm -rf %{buildroot}
%files
%defattr(-,apache,apache,-)
/var/www/redmine/plugins/*
%post
echo " "
echo "This will display after rpm installs the package!"
echo "If the plugin does not work, check the permissions ans ownership of the newly created ../redmine/plugins/redmine_knowledgebase"
rpmlint gives me the following errors:
rpmlint ../SPECS/redmine_knowledgebase.spec
../SPECS/redmine_knowledgebase.spec:5: W: non-standard-group redmine-plugins
../SPECS/redmine_knowledgebase.spec: E: specfile-error error: Package has no %description: redmine_knowledgebase
../SPECS/redmine_knowledgebase.spec: E: specfile-error error: query of specfile ../SPECS/redmine_knowledgebase.spec failed, can't parse
0 packages and 1 specfiles checked; 2 errors, 1 warnings
Apparently "Package has no %description" pops up when an unidentified error occurs. I solved this by formatting better the .spec: -I have given a path to source0 -I have provided a BuildRequired package (anything will do, I put gcc in there) -I have fixed indentation to use only tabs