[LU-15995] rpmbuild: Illegal char '-' (0x2d) in: Version: 2.15.0-RC5

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 04:57:23 +0000

I downloaded the tgz archive from a b2_15 patch on Gerrit and tried to build it. While running "make rpms", I hit the following error:

tardir=lustre-2.15.0-RC5 && tar --format=posix -chf - "$tardir" | eval GZIP= gzip --best -c >lustre-2.15.0-RC5.tar.gz
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/b2_15'
if test -d "lustre-2.15.0-RC5"; then find "lustre-2.15.0-RC5" -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';' && rm -rf "lustre-2.15.0-RC5" || { sleep 5 && rm -rf "lustre-2.15.0-RC5"; }; else :; fi
rpmbuilddir=`mktemp -t -d rpmbuild-lustre-$USER-XXXXXXXX`; \
make  \
	rpmbuilddir="$rpmbuilddir" rpm-local || exit 1; \
cp ./rpm/* .; \
/usr/bin/rpmbuild \
	--define "_tmppath $rpmbuilddir/TMP" \
	--define "_topdir $rpmbuilddir" \
	--define "dist %{nil}" \
	-ts lustre-2.15.0-RC5.tar.gz || exit 1; \
cp $rpmbuilddir/SRPMS/lustre-2.15.0-RC5-*.src.rpm . || exit 1; \
rm -rf $rpmbuilddir
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/b2_15'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/b2_15'
error: line 176: Illegal char '-' (0x2d) in: Version: 2.15.0-RC5
make: *** [autoMakefile:1211: srpm] Error 1

According to http://ftp.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-tags.html:

The version tag defines the version of the software being packaged. The version specified should be as close as possible to the format of the original software's version. In most cases, there should be no problem specifying the version just as the software's original developer did. However, there is a restriction. There can be no dashes in the version.

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[LU-15995] rpmbuild: Illegal char '-' (0x2d) in: Version: 2.15.0-RC5