is there any chance rpmbuild exits before reading %files file

[Valery Reznic]

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> From: Mark Galeck (CW) <mgaleck at Brocade.com>
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>Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 12:27 AM
>Subject: is there any chance rpmbuild exits before reading %files file
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>Hello,
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>I am using rpmbuild command version 4.4.2.3 on Linux, with the following syntax
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>rpmbuild -bb --define <defines> --target ppc-linux --buildroot <full path to a temp directory <spec file>
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>
>The rpmbuild command fails with this message
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>Could not open %files file <file in the %files section>: No such file or directory
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>
>I did carefully examine the situation and as far as I can tell, the file in question, is present before rpmbuild starts executing.  After rpmbuild exits, that file is immediately deleted.
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>
>Could it possibly happen, that somehow rpmbuild is executing "in the background", as if, returning early, and then still reading the file in %files.
I don't think problem related to the background execution.

I suggest you run rpmbuild under strace, like

strace -f -s300 rpmbuild -bb --define <defines> --target ppc-linux --buildroot <full path to a temp directory <spec file>

Then you'll see exactly what file and in what directory rpmbuild tried to open and what was errno

Valery.



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>Is there any chance of this happening?
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>Thank you,
>
>Mark
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