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Bug 1686413

Summary: /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-mangle-shebangs fails for non-existing RPM_BUILD_ROOT
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Karel Srot <ksrot>
Component: redhat-rpm-configAssignee: Florian Festi <ffesti>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Eva Mrakova <emrakova>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 8.0CC: dmach, emrakova, ffesti, fweimer, pmatilai
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Triaged
Target Release: 8.0Flags: pm-rhel: mirror+
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Last Closed: 2019-11-05 20:58:43 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Karel Srot 2019-03-07 12:04:20 UTC
Description of problem:

# head /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-mangle-shebangs
#!/bin/bash -eu

# If using normal root, avoid changing anything.
echo $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
if [ -z "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -o "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" = "/" ]; then
  exit 0
fi


The above doesn't test whether the directory actually exists.
For a spec file which I am able to build on RHEL-7 successfully, I am getting following failure on RHEL-8:

/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-mangle-shebangs: line 72: cd: /tmp/bz-ilrKNb/BUILDROOT/special-1.0-1.x86_64: No such file or directory
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5l4W0o (%install)


RPM build errors:
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5l4W0o (%install)


Changing the condition to the following fixed it for me.

if [ -z "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -o "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" = "/" -o ! -d "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" ]; then
  exit 0
fi

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
redhat-rpm-config-116-1.el8.noarch

Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2019-03-07 12:20:15 UTC
Actually none of the brp-scripts specifically test for buildroot existence, and eg brp-compress does similar unchecked cd into buildroot:

+ /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot
find: '/home/pmatilai/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/special-1.0-1.x86_64': No such file or directory
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-ldconfig
/sbin/ldconfig: Warning: ignoring configuration file that cannot be opened: /home/pmatilai/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/special-1.0-1.x86_64/: No such file or directory
+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
/usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress: line 10: cd: /home/pmatilai/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/special-1.0-1.x86_64: No such file or directory
+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip /usr/bin/strip
find: '/home/pmatilai/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/special-1.0-1.x86_64': No such file or directory
+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note /usr/bin/strip /usr/bin/objdump
find: '/home/pmatilai/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/special-1.0-1.x86_64': No such file or directory
+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-static-archive /usr/bin/strip
find: '/home/pmatilai/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/special-1.0-1.x86_64': No such file or directory
+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-python-bytecompile '%{__python}' 1 1
find: '/home/pmatilai/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/special-1.0-1.x86_64': No such file or directory
find: '/home/pmatilai/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/special-1.0-1.x86_64': No such file or directory
+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-python-hardlink
find: '/home/pmatilai/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/special-1.0-1.x86_64': No such file or directory
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-mangle-shebangs
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-mangle-shebangs: line 71: cd: /home/pmatilai/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/special-1.0-1.x86_64: No such file or directory

The catch is that brp-mangle-shebangs runs with -e:
#!/usr/bin/bash -eu

Whatever the fix ends up being, I agree these things should behave consistently.

Comment 3 Karel Srot 2019-03-07 12:43:26 UTC
That is correct. These errors are reported even on RHEL-7, however none of them prevents the package from being built.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 20:58:43 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:3389