Bug 447177

Summary:	rpmbuild fails on a spec with a leading comment line
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	5.1	CC:	jhutar, psklenar
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2008-05-18 15:26:54 UTC

Description of problem:

rpmbuild fails on this spec file on koji
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/devel/xgridfit/xgridfit.spec?rev=1.4

rpmbuild --define "_sourcedir
/tmp/koji/tasks/615927/scmroot/rpms/xgridfit/devel" --define "_specdir
/tmp/koji/tasks/615927/scmroot/rpms/xgridfit/devel" --define "_builddir
/tmp/koji/tasks/615927/scmroot/rpms/xgridfit/devel" --define "_srcrpmdir
/tmp/koji/tasks/615927/scmroot/rpms/xgridfit/devel" --define "_rpmdir
/tmp/koji/tasks/615927/scmroot/rpms/xgridfit/devel" --define "dist .fc10"
--define "fedora 10" --define "dist .fc10" --define "fedora 10" --nodeps -bs
xgridfit.spec error: File
/tmp/koji/tasks/615927/scmroot/rpms/xgridfit/devel/xgridfit.spec does not appear
to be a specfile. 

mbonnet reproduced the failure on a RHEL 5 box

It seems rpmbuild is confused by the leading comment. Later rpm versions like 
rpm-4.4.2.3-2.fc9.x86_64 are smarter

Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2008-08-14 05:53:06 UTC

If 4.4.2.3-2.fc9 works, then this gets fixed by the rpm rebase.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2008-08-14 06:01:29 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2009-01-20 20:49:34 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0079.html