From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.0.4-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: When trying to recompile imap server rpm from redhat-provided src.rpm, the rpmbuild fails in the prep section because of RCS lock files included in source. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): imap-2002d-11 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. download and install imap-2002d-11.src.rpm (up2date --get-source imap ; rpm -ivh /var/spool/up2date/imap-2002d-11.src.rpm) 2. cd to /usr/src/redhat 3. try to rebuild imap rpm (rpmbuild -ba SPECS/imap.spec) Actual Results: %prep section failed when patching sources : + patch -p0 -b --suffix .mbox-disable-patch -s patch: **** File ./Makefile seems to be locked by somebody else under RCS error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.47208 (%prep) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.47208 (%prep) Expected Results: imap rpm built, no error Additional info: this error comes from the files imap-2002d/RCS/Makefile,v and imap-2002d/RCS/makefile.w2k,v that are present in the imap-2002.tar.Z source file
Workaround found : launch export PATCH_GET=0 before rpmbuild
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