AIX rpmbuild on large package

[Jay Hendren]

Perhaps this is your problem?

> Individual files within packages are limited to 4GB each due to cpio
format limitation

Source: http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.5.90

Jay

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using IBM's compiled version of RPM 4.9.1.3 on AIX 7 and am attempting
> to package a ~30GB set of files (uncompressed).
>
> When rpmbuild gets to the "Processing files:" stage it craps out with the
> following type of message:
>
> Processing files: foo-1.0-1.ppc
> warning: Recognition of file "/foo/bar/libfile.so" failed: mode 100755
> cannot allocate zu bytes (Invalid argument)
>
> Smaller packages can be built just fine. I've doubled the ulimit on files
> open, memory, etc. but it fails on the same file on a rebuild.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
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