I think something's wrong with the build process described here. When I couldn't get things working, I made a verbatim copy of the complete spec file given here, and even with the full spec file it doesn't work for me. I'm testing Fedora 22 x64, inside GNOME Boxes 3.14.2 on Ubuntu 15.04 x64.
When I run rpmbuild -ba hello.spec I get this error:
RPM build errors:
File must begin with "/": AUTHORS
File must begin with "/": ChangeLog
File must begin with "/": COPYING
File must begin with "/": NEWS
File must begin with "/": README
File must begin with "/": THANKS
File must begin with "/": TODO
For each file name under the %doc section of the spec file, rpmbuild apparently wants a path relative to ~/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/hello-2.8-1.fc22.x86_64, and it wants each file written on its own line. But the "AUTHORS" and "COPYING" files are located in BUILD, and they aren't being copied from BUILD to BUILDROOT/hello-2.8-1.fc22.x86_64. Even if you try manually copying the files to BUILDROOT/hello-2.8-1.fc22.x86_64, they get erased sometime in the build process, and it ends with a file-not-found error anyway.
RPM build errors:
File not found: /home/terrycloth/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/hello-2.8-1.fc22.x86_64/AUTHORS
File not found: /home/terrycloth/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/hello-2.8-1.fc22.x86_64/ChangeLog
File not found: /home/terrycloth/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/hello-2.8-1.fc22.x86_64/COPYING
File not found: /home/terrycloth/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/hello-2.8-1.fc22.x86_64/NEWS
File not found: /home/terrycloth/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/hello-2.8-1.fc22.x86_64/README
File not found: /home/terrycloth/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/hello-2.8-1.fc22.x86_64/THANKS
File not found: /home/terrycloth/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/hello-2.8-1.fc22.x86_64/TODO
I don't know much about rpmbuild, obviously, or I wouldn't be working on this tutorial. The only thing I can think of that lets rpmbuild finish successfully is removing the files listed under the %doc section of the spec file.
--Terrycloth (talk) 01:52, 8 June 2015 (UTC)