Re: rpmbuild and whitespace in path names

[Paul Flores <flores_p_a yahoo com>]

I had a similar problem with not only directory but file names.  Solution that was arrived at was to insure that the entire path (directory and file names) was either quoted or escaped in the Spec file.  The key for our solution is the use of the Spec file.

Felix Schwarz <felix schwarz web de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can anyone help me building rpms when the _topdir path name contains whitespace?
>
> 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
>
> This fails with:
> (...)
> > + umask 022
> > + cd /home/fs/eg g/build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm/BUILD
> > /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.16608: line 21: cd: /home/fs/eg: No such file or directory
>
> So I tried to quote the path:
> > rpmbuild -ba --define '_topdir "/home/fs/eg
>  g/build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm"' --clean build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm/SPECS/texttemplate.spec
>
> result:
> > error: File "/home/fs/eg g/build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm"/SOURCES/texttemplate-0.2.0.tar.gz: No such file or directory
>
> Obviously, rpmbuild just concats the given path with other components. So I went for 
> quoting with backslashes:
> > rpmbuild -ba --define '_topdir /home/fs/eg\ g/build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm' --clean build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm/SPECS/texttemplate.spec
>
> result:
> > error: File /home/fs/eg g/build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm/SOURCES/texttemplate-0.2.0.tar.gz: No such file or directory
>
> Double/Tripple backslashes did not work either.
>
> Yes, I can rename/symlink the directory but I think that software should be able to deal 
> with whitespace in pathnames. After all, just passing commands unquoted to shell commands 
> is bad. And *denying* the use of proper quoting is /evil/ -- IMHO.
>
> Any hints how to
>  resolve that issue? If not, does anyone know the bug report number in 
> bugzilla (I didn't find one)?
>
> fs
>
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