Re: Building a custom rpm from the source tarball, post 3.0

[Dario Lombardo <lomato () gmail com>]

If I'm not mistaken, that's a known bug. It should be fixed by

https://code.wireshark.org/review/c/33214/


On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:12 PM Maynard, Chris <Christopher.Maynard () igt com>
wrote:

> In the old days prior to Wireshark 3.0, one could visit
> *https://www.wireshark.org/download/src/all-versions/*
> <https://www.wireshark.org/download/src/all-versions/>, download the
> source tarball of interest (e.g., wireshark-2.6.6.tar.xz), extract it,
> modify it as necessary and build both a custom Windows installer and a
> custom RHEL7 rpm.
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> Beginning with Wireshark 3.0 though, it no longer seems possible to create
> a customized rpm from the source tarball as before.  Is this so, or am I
> missing something?
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> fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /home)
> Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).
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> If it is the case, then why is that?  Would it be possible for the project
> to restore the ability to build rpm’s from the source tarball like it was
> possible to do prior to Wireshark 3.0?
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> Thanks.
> - Chris
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