Re: Maximum file limit for rpmbuild

Marty Ridgeway <[email protected]> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:36:02 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I found the problem digging around on some older forums. I had the %doc 
line in my %files section. I removed it and problem solved. I removed 
the check_files line from my spec file and it still works.

Thanks for the help and ideas.



Jeff Johnson wrote:
>
> On Jul 30, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Marty Ridgeway wrote:
>
>> I tried the modification in your note and now I get this error:
>>
>> Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 
>> rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
>> Checking for unpackaged file(s): /bin/true
>> D:      execv(/bin/true) pid 14448
>> getOutputFrom(): Broken pipe
>>
>
> getOutputFrom() is racy, /bin/true is exiting before rpmbuild
> can manage to send info to the pipe.
>
> Instead of /bin/true, write a short wrapper script that
> cat's stdin to /dev/null, and then does exit 0.
>
> That should work around the getOutputFrom() raciness.
>
> FWIW, the raciness is a design flaw in rpm, been there forever.
>
> 73 de Jeff
>
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