Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 53405
rpm --rebuild Segmentation fault
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:00 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010906 Description of problem: Segmentation fault when i run rpm --rebuild proftpd-1.2.2.tar.gz Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.rpm --rebuild proftpd-1.2.2.tar.gz 2. 3. Actual Results: [root@gw rpm]# rpm --rebuild proftpd-1.2.2.tar.gz Installing proftpd-1.2.2.tar.gz Segmentation fault [root@gw rpm]# Expected Results: compil ... Additional info: It's a fresh os install. When i try to rebuild a src.rpm, i have no problem. proftpd-1.2.2.tar.gz is from official site (www.proftpd.org).
Hmmm, I'll look at the segfault. Meanwhile, the argument to "rpm --rebuild" should be a src.rpm, not a tarball. If there's a spec file inside the tar ball, then you can try rpm -ta proftpd-1.2.2.tar.gz to build packages. Otherwise look for a proftpd-1.2.2-*.src.rpm source package.