Hi there,

I got many error messages on FC5 fully updated trying to compile tar packages using "rpmbuild -ta tar_package.tar.gz" command.

I notice that rpmbuild was executing "/bin/tar xOvf - Specfile" and "/bin/tar xOvf - <package_name>.spec" commands to extract .spec files from the tar packages but without success. The rpmbuild command always create "/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/tar\:\ Pattern\ matching\ characters\ used\ in\ file\ names.\ Please\," and "tar\:\ You\ must\ specify\ one\ of\ the\ \`-Acdtrux\'\ options" files in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS directory.

I solved this problem adding "-" before tar options and "--wildcards"  to tar command in build.c file. (see attached patch).

Is this problem a rpmbuild bug? There is a way to fix if without patch / recompile rpm packages?

These are the steps to reproduce this problem:

# wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2
# tar -xjvf linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 -C /usr/src
# cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.18
# make oldconfig
# make rpm
make clean
set -e; cd ..; ln -sf /usr/src/linux- 2.6.18 kernel-2.6.18
set -e; cd ..; tar -cz --exclude SCCS --exclude BitKeeper --exclude .svn --exclude CVS --exclude .pc --exclude .hg --exclude .git -f kernel-2.6.18.tar.gz kernel-2.6.18/*
set -e; cd ..; rm kernel-2.6.18
set -e; \
/bin/sh /usr/src/linux-2.6.18/scripts/mkversion > /usr/src/linux-2.6.18/.tmp_version
set -e; \
mv -f /usr/src/linux-2.6.18/.tmp_version /usr/src/linux-2.6.18/.version
rpmbuild --target i686 -ta ../kernel- 2.6.18.tar.gz
Building target platforms: i686
Building for target i686
error: Name field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Version field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Release field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Summary field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Group field must be present in package: (main package)
error: License field must be present in package: (main package)
make[1]: *** [rpm] Error 1
make: *** [rpm] Error 2

("make rpm" executes "rpmbuild --target i686 -ta ../kernel- 2.6.18.tar.gz")

thanks,
Márcio