app-arch/rpm-4.4.6-r3: rpmbuild -tb can't find the embedded specfile

[Jeff Johnson]

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[jlh (jlherren)]

"rpmbuild -tb tarball.tar.gz" cannot find the embedded '*.spec' file because it's not passing --wildcards to tar who requires this to match wildcards. Tar then prints a message about this, which rpmbuild misinterprets as a real output and goes on to create a file called "%{_topdir}/SPECS/tar: Pattern matching characters used in file names. Please,", which is the first line of tar's message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Invoke "rpmbuild -tb tarball.tar.gz" on a tarball that includes a specfile that is supposed to work.
Actual Results:
rpmbuild emits the following output:

error: Name field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Version field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Release field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Summary field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Group field must be present in package: (main package)
error: License field must be present in package: (main package)

That's rpmbuild's clever way of saying that it didn't find the spec file. Using strace you can see that the following gets invoked behind the scenes: "tar xOvf - '*.spec'". Manually running this command show tar's message about wildcards.

Expected Results:
Expected result is of course that rpmbuild finds the spec file. It should pass --wildcards before the *.spec argument to tar.

app-arch/rpm-4.4.6-r6 behaves the same. I didn't test app-arch/rpm-4.4.7* as they are hard masked and said to be broken on x86 anyway.

My tar is app-arch/tar-1.20.

[jlh (jlherren)]

Here's a link to the git commit that fixes this problem:

http://devel.linux.duke.edu/gitweb/?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=39defaa877956e0719451f37d1eee81350a163ca

Putting this commit's diff into files/rpm-4.4.6-tar-wildcards.patch and enabling it in the ebuild works fine.

[jlh (jlherren)]

That other link doesn't work anymore. Here's the patch:

http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=39defaa877956e0719451f37d1eee81350a163ca

[Jeff Johnson (n3npq)]

tracked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/rpm/+bug/634189

[Jeff Johnson (n3npq)]

heh ... tar --wildcards all over again again.

[Sochotnicky (sochotnicky)]

Unlikely you are still experiencing the same problem, though the only stable rpm is basically the same.

I will be trying to stabilize rpm 4.9.1.2 after some more testing in the tree and cleanup older releases. It would be nice if you could test it. A simple test I've done on rpmbuild -tb with one project seemed to work for me.

[Sochotnicky (sochotnicky)]

We did a cleanup of older app-arch/rpm versions. Oldest is now 4.9.1.3, please update and if you can still reproduce feel free to reopen.