rpm build failing in %prep macro

[escapingsummer]

I have been working on building jupiter from www.jupiterapplet.org and I keep getting a failure in the %prep part of my .spec file. I keep getting this message, RPM build errors: Bad exit status from ~/rpm/tmp/rpm-tmp.99158 (%prep) which I have encounter in the past, however I can't seem to resolve this one. Any help would be appreciated.

The issue seems to be the CD command issued...at least from what I can figure out.

[gseaman]

Do you have a spec file from another distro as a starting point?

Galen

[escapingsummer]

I have two actually, one from Fedora which came with jupiter, and the other is the mandriva .spec file from some arbitrary package I am using a reference as to the formating. I think I will download a pclos src rpm and get the spec from one of those and have a look as well.

[escapingsummer]

Here is another section of the error...

+ cd Jupiter-0.0.49
/home/brock/rpm/tmp/rpm-tmp.94118: line 39: cd: Jupiter-0.0.49: No such file or directory
error: Bad exit status from /home/brock/rpm/tmp/rpm-tmp.94118 (%prep)


RPM build errors:
    Bad exit status from /home/brock/rpm/tmp/rpm-tmp.94118 (%prep)


I noticed that part of the file was naming things wrong...and had to correct it on more than one occasion, I am wondering if that is what could be causing this...

[Texstar]

Here is another section of the error...

+ cd Jupiter-0.0.49
/home/brock/rpm/tmp/rpm-tmp.94118: line 39: cd: Jupiter-0.0.49: No such file or directory
error: Bad exit status from /home/brock/rpm/tmp/rpm-tmp.94118 (%prep)


RPM build errors:
    Bad exit status from /home/brock/rpm/tmp/rpm-tmp.94118 (%prep)


I noticed that part of the file was naming things wrong...and had to correct it on more than one occasion, I am wondering if that is what could be causing this...

You need to set the %setup -qn to match the name of the folder in the build directory.

If you compress uranus folder into uranus-1.50.tar.xz then your %setup would be %setup -qn uranus. Normally most source packages folder match their %name-%version so if you compress uranus-1.50 folder to uranus-1.50.tar.xz then all you need for %setup would be %setup -q