I was too hasty but I have also little experience.  Anyhow, I followed
Ingo's list of required packages and installed all the missing ones.
However that did not seemed to be the problem (yet).  There is something
with pkgconfig not in order, but pkgconfig is installed.  The build, as
root:

fiume: # rpmbuild --rebuild amanda-2.6.0p2-1.noarch.src.rpm
Installing amanda-2.6.0p2-1.noarch.src.rpm
warning: user buildslave does not exist - using root
warning: group buildslave does not exist - using root
warning: user buildslave does not exist - using root
warning: group buildslave does not exist - using root
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gnome/share/pkgconfigerror:
parse error in expression
error: /usr/src/packages/SPECS/amanda.spec:113: parseExpressionBoolean
returns -1
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)

I think the line with PKG_CONFIG_PATH should have had a newline before
"error:", because I checked $PKG_CONFIG_PATH for root:

fiume: # set | grep PKG
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gnome/share/pkgconfig

and both directories are empty:

fiume: # ll /opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig
total 0
fiume: # ll /opt/gnome/share/pkgconfig
total 0

Should I specify PKG_CONFIG_PATH, or do I need to install something
from gnome and, if so, what?

Many thanks for your replies so far.

Charles







On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:33:41 -0500
"Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Ingo Schaefer
> <ingo AT ingo-schaefer DOT de> wrote:
> > Why did it fail to build.
> >
> > I would assume, that you don't have the filled all requirements for
> > it to build.
> 
> I talked briefly with Dan, our packaging expert.  We (Zmanda) don't
> build for OpenSUSE, but the source RPM should, at worst, just need a
> few tweaks to get it working.  We'd be happy to commit such tweaks if
> we get a patch.  Aside from the requirements Ingo mentions, this could
> be due to a problem in the system version detection conditionals near
> the top.  These should be fairly easy to fix.
> 
> If you have trouble, please post the error messages you see, and Dan
> or I may be able to help.
> 
> -- 
> Storage Software Engineer
> http://www.zmanda.com