[Rpm-maint] RPM macros and tag size limit

Giulio Eulisse Giulio.Eulisse at cern.ch
Sat Dec 22 22:41:24 UTC 2007


Ciao,
I mean the lenght of the string. We have a (automatically generated)
Requires line that looks like this:

Requires: external+zlib+1.2.3-cms external+expat+2.0.0-cms
external+openssl+0.9.7d-cms external+bz2lib+1.0.2-cms
external+db4+4.4.20-cms external+gdbm+1.8.3-wt external+libjpg+6b-ge
external+mysql+5.0.45-wt external+oracle+10.2.0.3-ge
external+cmake+2.4.6-ge external+python+2.4.2-wt
external+boost-build+2.0-m12-ge external+castor+2.1.1-4-ge
external+dcap+1.2.35-ge external+gsl+1.8-ge external+libungif+4.1.4-ge
external+p5-uri+1.35-ge external+pcre+4.4-ge external+qt+3.3.6-ge
external+xrootd+20071001-0000a-ge external+libpng+1.2.10-ge
external+gccxml+0.7.0_20070615-ge external+libtiff+3.8.2-ge
external+clhep+1.9.3.2-ge cms+cms-env+1.0-ge
external+cppunit+1.10.2-ge external+gmake+3.81-ge
cms+oracle-env+1.8-ge external+p5-template-toolkit+2.15-ge
external+p5-xml-parser+2.34-ge external+systemtools+18-ge
external+uuid+1.38-ge external+p5-libwww-perl+1.41-ge
external+boost+1.34.1-ge lcg+root+5.14.00g-ge external+p5-dbi+1.50-ge
lcg+SCRAMV1+V1_0_3-p3-ge cms+seal-tool-conf+CMS_151-ge
external+sqlite+3.4.0-ge external+xerces-c+2.7.0-ge
external+p5-dbd-oracle+1.17-ge external+frontier_client+2.7.4-ge
cms+seal+SEAL_1_9_3-ge

and rpm chockes with:

sh: line 0: echo: write error: Broken pipe
error: line 11: Unknown tag: l-conf/CMS_151-ge
external/sqlite/3.4.0-ge  external/xerces-c/2.7.0-ge
external/p5-dbd-oracle/1.17-ge  external/frontier_client/2.7.4-ge
cms/seal/SEAL_1_9_3-ge
error: query of specfile
/Users/ktf/work/leopardBuilds/tmp/tmpspec-coral-tool-conf failed,
can't parse

when we try to do:

rpm -q --specfile spec -i

Notice that the error seems to appear when the line lenght is greater
than 1024 chars and appears for both "Requires" and %defines and as
far as I can tell it used to work on 4.4.2.1.

Ciao,
Giulio



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