Bug 220449 - rpmbuild can not handle paths with whitespace
Summary: rpmbuild can not handle paths with whitespace
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Panu Matilainen
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Reported: 2006-12-21 13:06 UTC by Felix Schwarz
Modified: 2008-01-25 17:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-01-25 17:09:17 UTC
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Description Felix Schwarz 2006-12-21 13:06:16 UTC 
example command:
> rpmbuild -ba --define '_topdir /home/fs/eg g/build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm' --clean
> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm/SPECS/texttemplate.spec

This fails with:
(...)
 > + umask 022
 > + cd /home/fs/eg g/build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm/BUILD
 > /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.16608: line 21: cd: /home/fs/eg: No such file or directory

So I tried to quote the path:
> rpmbuild -ba --define '_topdir "/home/fs/eg g/build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm"'
> --clean build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm/SPECS/texttemplate.spec

result:
> error: File "/home/fs/eg
> g/build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm"/SOURCES/texttemplate-0.2.0.tar.gz: No such file or
> directory

Obviously, rpmbuild just concats the given path with other components. So I went
for quoting with backslashes:
> rpmbuild -ba --define '_topdir /home/fs/eg\ g/build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm'
--clean
> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm/SPECS/texttemplate.spec

result:
> error: File /home/fs/eg
g/build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm/SOURCES/texttemplate-0.2.0.tar.gz: 
> No such file or directory

Double/Tripple backslashes did not work either.
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2006-12-28 23:27:37 UTC 
rpm-4.4.8-0.7 will handle white space in %_topdir.

Note that there's many other places that need fixing, its not only %_topdir
that won't handle white space in paths.

UPSTREAM
Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-08-21 05:30:35 UTC 
User pnasrat's account has been closed
Comment 3 Panu Matilainen 2007-08-22 06:35:19 UTC 
Reassigning to owner after bugzilla made a mess, sorry about the noise...
Comment 4 Panu Matilainen 2007-09-04 11:33:50 UTC 
FWIW, rpmbuild whitespace issues have been largely fixed in upstream rpm.org,
but various other things like build-helper scripts not handling whitespace
remain. Not to mention other issues in rpm whitespace handling...
Comment 5 Panu Matilainen 2007-10-25 11:26:54 UTC 
Moving to devel, not going to get fixed in FC6 at this point
Comment 6 Panu Matilainen 2008-01-25 17:09:17 UTC 
Should be fixed in 4.4.2.3-0.1.rc1
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