Re: rpmbuild and whitespace in path names

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Dec 19, 2006, at 9:25 AM, Felix Schwarz wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> James Olin Oden wrote:
> > On 12/19/06, Felix Schwarz <felix schwarz web de> wrote:
> > > example command:
> > > > rpmbuild -ba --define '_topdir /home/fs/eg g/build/bdist.linux- 
> > > > x86_64/rpm' --clean
> > > build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm/SPECS/texttemplate.spec
> > You might try '_topdir "/home/fs/eg g/build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm"'
> > as your definition.  Basically I just added quoting around the
> > definition value.  This may fail miserably, as this is just a guess.
>
> Tried that, failed. The exact error message is in my original mail
> just two paragraphs below the passage you quoted.
>
> > How about filing a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com.
>
> I tried to gather some more information on the topic before filing
> bug reports in order to reduce the number of irrelevant/badly written
> reports. :-)

It's Broken.

File the bug report please ;-)

73 de Jeff