file added to rpm as zero bytes

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How do you know its a zero byte file?


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Bohne, Andrew
<Bohne.Andrew at pennmutual.com>wrote:

>  Hello,****
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> I've been pulling my hair out of an issue with an RPM I'm trying to build.
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> In my %install section I have the following lines consecutively:****
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>     %{__cp} -a bin/%{name} ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_bindir}/%{name}****
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>     %{__cp} -a bin/%{name} ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_bindir}/%{name}-2****
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> And in the %files section I have****
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> %attr(0755,root,root) %{_bindir}/*****
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> The files are both added to the rpm in the correct spot, but
> %{_bindir}/%{name} is added as a 0 byte file, while %{_bindir}/%{name}-2 is
> added as the correct size.  The source file is a shell script if that has
> any bearing on the matter.****
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