FC5 "rpmbuild -ta" problems

David Malcolm dmalcolm at redhat.com
Mon Oct 2 21:55:59 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 13:05 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 29 September 2006 20:37, Marcio Oliveira wrote:
> > It seems that --wildcards option became required for tar.  I will test the
> > patched rpmbuild with earlier tar versions (in FC1, FC2, FC3, FC4 and FC5,
> > maybe in RH9, RH8, RHEL2.1, RHEL3, RHEL4  and RHEL5 Beta too) to confirm if
> > it supports --wildcards.
> 
> We reverted tar in FC5 and rawhide.  This should solve a lot of the problems 
> that came up.

Thanks - my testcase now passes for rawhide-20061001:
http://people.redhat.com/dmalcolm/beaker-results/trees/rawhide-20061001/i386/CoreOS/rpm/rpm-build/rpmbuild-of-tarball-smoketest/

Hope this helps
Dave




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