On 11/07/2017 01:40 PM, John Pilkington wrote: > On 07/11/17 20:45, ToddAndMargo wrote: >> On 11/07/2017 04:07 AM, John Pilkington wrote: >>> On 07/11/17 11:11, ToddAndMargo wrote: >>>> Dear List, >>>> >>>> SL 7.4 >>>> >>>> What am I doing wrong? >>>> >>>> >>>> $ rpmbuild --rebuild simple-scan-3.26.1-1.fc27.src.rpm >>>> Installing simple-scan-3.26.1-1.fc27.src.rpm >>>> ... >>>> error: line 25: Unknown tag: Recommends: yelp >>>> >>>> $ rpm -qa yelp\* >>>> yelp-3.22.0-1.el7.x86_64 >>>> yelp-xsl-3.20.1-1.el7.noarch >>>> yelp-libs-3.22.0-1.el7.x86_64 >>>> yelp-tools-3.18.0-1.el7.noarch >>>> >>>> Many thanks, >>>> -T >>>> >>> You could try editing the specfile to 'Requires' ? >> >> Thank you and was afraid of that. >> > I have a specfile (for MythTV) that works in mock under fc25 in builds > for both SL7 and fc25. It's based on one from rpmfusion and includes > the lines > > Requires: python-MythTV > %{?fedora:Recommends: mesa-vdpau-drivers} > > But that might be using an rpmfusion macro. And of course other > problems might emerge; fc27 is several steps away from el7. > > John Hi John, At some point I am going to have to break down and learn how to make my own RPMs. What got me here was that "yelp" is installed and I am being tagged for it being missing. Something else to learn. I should probably add your "%{?fedora" tag all over the place. Thank you for the help! -T