AIX rpmbuild on large package

[Panu Matilainen]

On 03/02/2016 12:57 AM, Michael Cronenworth 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)

That is a failure inside libmagic, rpm is only the messenger here.
It should be reproducable outside rpm with:

$ file -z -e tokens <path-to-buildroot>/foo/bar/libfile.so

...assuming 'file' is linked against the same libmagic version as rpm, 
that is.

Also what 'ls -l' says about the file might help shed some light on it. 
Like Jay noted there's a 4G limit on individual files, but rpm should 
clearly report that with a "File <path> too large for payload" message 
so I suspect this is something different.

>
> 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?

You should be able to get past it by doing 'chmod a-x 
%{buildroot}/foo/bar/libfile.so' at end of %install section (and/or 
possibly adjust %files section to make it non-executable there too). The 
dependencies wont get recorded that way, but that can be worked around 
by manually adding them in the spec if need be.

	- Panu -

>
> Thanks,
> Michael
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