Bug 76163

Summary:	getOutputFrom(): broken pipe while finding provides
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <mail>
Component:	rpm-build	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	emrecio
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Description Need Real Name 2002-10-17 18:18:58 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux)

Description of problem:
building an RPM of my app failed on RH 8.0 with the above error. In 7.3 everything was ok.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. download kwifimanager-1.0.0.tar.gz from http://sourceforge.net/projects/kwifimanager
2. grab .spec and .xpm file from CVS
3. build as usual with rpmbuild -ba kwifimanager.spec
	

Actual Results:  the whole build went okay, except for finding-provides, which failed with getOutputFrom(): broken pipe. As a result, RPMs were not built.

Expected Results:  Expected a painless build of kwifimanager.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-10-25 18:44:52 UTC

Hmmm, this package does not have a build root.
Adding a BuildRoot: to the package is strongly
suggested.

I can't reproduce an error with find-provides,
only with check-files that takes a (undefined)
%{buildroot} argument, perhaps that's what you
are seeing? If it is in find-provides, then

	cat files.txt | /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides

is all that rpm is doing.

Adding
	%define __check_files %{nil}
will disable the functionality.

Comment 2 wibble123 2003-01-04 21:48:50 UTC

Hi,

I'm also getting a simular error as above. I've managed to narrow the posible
cause to the length of the files list when building. So for whenI have less than
20 files in the list it moslty works but as more and more files are added it
fails more and more often. The order doen't seem to matter but I have a supicion
that the real memory/swap boundary might have an effect. i.e. as swap is used. (
I have a swap file rather than partition.)

I'm buiding in a root env using an image of 8.0 which otherwise works fine. Here
is an example -:

snip-----
cat ./foobar/tmp/files-bak | sort | head -n 20 > ./foobar/tmp/files
su -c "/usr/sbin/chroot ./foobar /rpm.sh"
......
Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/local/lib/rpm/check-files %{buildroot}
warning: Could not canonicalize hostname: sue
Wrote: /usr/local/src/redhat/SRPMS/perl-5.8.0-1.src.rpm
Wrote: /usr/local/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/perl-5.8.0-1.i386.rpm

...

cat ./foobar/tmp/files-bak | sort | head -n 41 > ./foobar/tmp/files
su -c "/usr/sbin/chroot ./foobar /rpm.sh"
...

Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/local/lib/rpm/check-files %{buildroot}
getOutputFrom(): Broken pipe


snip-----

Comment 3 Elmo 2003-02-19 18:15:03 UTC

I get the same error from check-files: 

Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files %{buildroot}
getOutputFrom(): Broken pipe


-Elmo