Bug 1093183 - New rpmdeps cannot handle large space separated list of files
Summary: New rpmdeps cannot handle large space separated list of files
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Packaging Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-04-30 20:35 UTC by Orion Poplawski
Modified: 2014-05-06 10:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-05-06 10:23:42 UTC
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Description Orion Poplawski 2014-04-30 20:35:51 UTC 
Description of problem:
Thunderbird tries to filter out all requires that it provides.  It tries to pass a giant space separated string of filenames to /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides.  This used to work but now generates:

warning: Recognition of file "/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/thunderbird-
<massive string truncated>
d-24.5.0-1.fc21.x86_64/usr/lib64' (File name too long)

Do we want to still support this or does thunderbird need to change?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.11.2-10.fc21
Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2014-05-06 10:23:42 UTC 
Thunderbird needs to change its being worked out in bug 1088001), its using an deprecated and antiquated filtering mechanism in a fairly rather unique way. Space is not a good delimiter with filenames, that undocumented twist is not coming back.
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