Bug 894042

Summary:	rpmrebuild fails with "error: incorrect format: invalid field width"
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Travers Carter <tcarter>
Component:	rpmrebuild	Assignee:	Anderson Silva <ansilva>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	18	CC:	ansilva, bill-bugzilla.redhat.com, sjoerd, wihocob
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Description Travers Carter 2013-01-10 15:13:08 UTC

Description of problem:
rpmrebuild fails with the message "error: incorrect format: invalid field width"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpmrebuild-2.8-1.fc18.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run "rpmrebuild <package>", eg "rpmrebuild patch"

  
Actual results:
[trav@localhost Downloads]$ rpmrebuild patch
error: incorrect format: invalid field width
result: /home/trav/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/patch-2.6.1-14.fc18.x86_64.rpm

Expected results:
A new rpm is built

Additional info:
* The problem also occurs when using the --package flag to rebuild directly from an existing rpm file.
* I have tested with a few fedora packages and a few 3rd party packages and they all seem exhibit the same problem.
* May be related to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=881835 
* I have updated to rpm-4.10.2-1.fc18.x86_64 from updates-testing which doesn't resolve the problem (not sure if the problem is rpm or rpmrebuild, but it seemed potentially related).

Comment 1 Anderson Silva 2013-01-10 15:17:16 UTC

Hi,

Thanks for the bug report, I am going to send this bug upstream, and see if the devs can look into it a bit.

Comment 2 Travers Carter 2013-01-11 01:40:34 UTC

Thanks,

I should also have mentioned that the package (ie result:) does in fact get created with all the expected metadata/tags, but it contains no files.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2013-01-20 20:28:58 UTC

rpmrebuild-2.9-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rpmrebuild-2.9-1.fc18

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2013-01-23 02:02:42 UTC

Package rpmrebuild-2.9-1.fc18:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing rpmrebuild-2.9-1.fc18'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-1276/rpmrebuild-2.9-1.fc18
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-02-01 16:51:35 UTC

rpmrebuild-2.9-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Sjoerd Mullender 2013-07-16 18:28:42 UTC

Please also fix on Fedora 19.

Comment 7 Bill McGonigle 2013-07-29 02:43:45 UTC

I got the SRPM from Koji and rebuilt it on f19 (no changes) and it seems to work as expected.

n.b. this seems to currently be the best option for getting Google Earth installed on f19 (their issue 1525).

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