Bug 56656

Report against the packages, not rpm. It's up to
the package owners to get the bits into the package
correctly, not up to rpm.

It irritates me when I file a bug and the owner of the bug assumes that I'm
wrong rather than taking the time to check.

There is no bug in the other packages about which I filed this bug.  The bug is
in rpm-build, in particular, in this line in /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress:

	l=`ls -l $f | awk '{ print $11 }' | sed -e 's/\.gz$//' -e 's/\.bz2$//' -e
's/\.Z$//'`

The output format of "ls" changed recently (perhaps as the result of something
related to my locale settings combined with a change in how ls handles various
locale settings?), such that $11 is no longer the correct field number for
retrieving the file name to which a link points:

  jik:/tmp!39> ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/zsoelim.1.gz 
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           11 10-12 09:55
/usr/share/man/man1/zsoelim.1.gz -> soelim.1.gz

Rather than simply changing the script to rely on a different field number,
which is prone to work on some systems and not others and which in any case may
break again in the future, here's a better fix:

--- /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress	Thu Sep 13 17:03:15 2001
+++ /tmp/brp-compress	Fri Nov 23 12:18:31 2001
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
     for f in `find $d -type l`
     do
-	l=`ls -l $f | awk '{ print $11 }' | sed -e 's/\.gz$//' -e 's/\.bz2$//' -e
's/\.Z$//'`
+	l=`ls -l $f | sed -e 's/.* -> //' -e 's/\.gz$//' -e 's/\.bz2$//' -e
's/\.Z$//'`
 	rm -f $f
 	b=`echo $f | sed -e 's/\.gz$//' -e 's/\.bz2$//' -e 's/\.Z$//'`
 	ln -sf $l$COMPRESS_EXT $b$COMPRESS_EXT

It irritates me when a user makes assumptions about my behavior
and then presumes to criticize me for problems outside my control.

I carry the brp-compress script for the os-devel group. I do not,
and can not, change those bits without consensus and approval.

Yes the script is feeble and broken. I've known that for quite awhile.

And thanks for the patch :-)

I blame it all on jbj.  In fact, I am starting to think a good 50 or
so XFree86 bugs are actually the result of bugs introduced by RPM.

;o)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56336 ***