Description of problem:
This is related with a old fedora bug.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982348

A customer has a custom package with a large number of files.
He could not install it on RHEL7.3 with --relocate option.

I put the actual command and the result in another private comment.

After investigation, it failed with the following code (hdrchkData) in headerExport().

    /* Sanity checks on header intro. */
    if (hdrchkTags(il) || hdrchkData(dl))
        goto errxit;

(gdb) print il
$3 = 68
(gdb) print/x dl
$2 = 0x1496158

In lib/header_internal.h:
/**
 * Sanity check on data size and/or offset and/or count.
 * This check imposes a limit of 16 MB, more than enough.
 */
#define HEADER_DATA_MAX 0x00ffffff
#define hdrchkData(_nbytes) ((_nbytes) & (~HEADER_DATA_MAX))

It failed in hdrchkData().

Can we remove this limitation by increasing the maximum header data?


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
I will write this in a separated private comment.

Actual results:
installation failed. rpmdb was not updated.
But, the files are installed on the system.

Expected results:
installation doesn't fail

Additional info:

C#1 in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982348
> But yes, this needs fixing sooner than later.

This comment was created in 2013, so I want to know if it can be fixed in RHEL7 at this stage.