Re: Maximum file limit for rpmbuild

[Marty Ridgeway <mridge50 verizon net>]

devzero2000 wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Marty Ridgeway <mridge50 verizon net 
> <mailto:mridge50 verizon net>> wrote:
>
>     I seem to be having a strange problem. I'm building a very large
>     RPM file, 10K+ files and the build appears to go along normally
>     and then just stops. No error code, no apparent failures, it just
>     stops.
>
>
>
> How  large  ?  The  problem  in  rpm4.4.2.x.y.z  is that rpm can't 
> handle file > 2Gb.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433795
>
> FYI : rpm5.org <http://rpm5.org> can and apparently also rpm4.6 (for 
> Fedora10) also.
>
> How many file ? I don't think the problem is this : I have build rpm 
> (in rpm 4.4.2.x.y.z also) with 30000 files
>
> hth
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I have about 10K -11K files so apparently that isn't the problem. My 
spec file doesn't even attempt to build the binaries into an RPM. It 
just sort of exits w/o any error.