How to create one rpm package which only contains specified directory?

[Michael Barto]

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On May 14, 2009, at 12:19 AM, He Yunlong-B20256 wrote:

> Hi, Experts,
>
>     I have one directory like this (about 300M, over 50000 files):
>
>             /opt/xxx/usr/local/gcc-4.3-binutils-2.18
>
>     I want to create one rpm package for it, when installing the rpm  
> package, it should extract the files and put it to the same location  
> (/opt/xxx/usr/local/gcc-4.3-binutils-2.18)
>
>     finally I got the package, but when installing the rpm, it hangs  
> with only printing out "preparing...", then I have to kill it manually
>
>         [sstims at harry_rh52 ~]$ sudo rpm -Uvh --nodeps --nofiles  -- 
> noscript --nomd5 cs-xxx.rpm
>         Preparing...                Killed
>     with help of strace, it hangs with mmap2 system call
>
>          #sudo strace rpm -ivh cs-xxx.rpm
>         ...
>         mremap(0x545a6000, 1616502784, 1616506880, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) =  
> 0x545a6000
>         pread64(6, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\363\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\214\0a 
> \7\0\2\367\17\356\17\346\17"..., 4096, 2043904) = 4096
>         mmap2(NULL, 1077669888, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| 
> MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x141e7000
>         Killed
>     I restart the machine and run "sudo rpm --rebuilddb", but still  
> failed.
>
>     If I package it with fewer files, it can be installed, but still  
> very slow.  The most strange issue is that it need much memory when  
> installing the rpm package, about 800M is used, but finally hang.
>
>     Can you help to have a look on this issue?
>
>                 I build the rpm package with rpm 4.0.4, and install  
> the package with rpm 4.4.2
>                 I failed to create the rpm package with rpm 4.4.2,  
> segment fault occured.
>
> B.R.
> Harry
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Michael Barto
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