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Bug 602646

Summary: Unable to build extra large rpm (14GiB)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Šimon Lukašík <slukasik>
Component: rpmAssignee: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 6.0CC: psklenar
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OS: Linux   
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Description Šimon Lukašík 2010-06-10 11:51:36 UTC 
Description of problem:
'cpio: Bad magic' occurs while trying to build extra large rpm (size about 14GiB). 
Please note that rpmbuid succeeded to build 8GiB large rpm.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.8.0-9.el6
rpm-libs-4.8.0-9.el6
rpm-build-4.8.0-9.el6
coreutils-8.4-8.el6


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
error: create archive failed on file /tmp/bz-FG45rw/BUILDROOT/huge-rpm-1.0-1.ppc64/usr/share/doc/huge-rpm-1.0/huge-file-4: cpio: Bad magic


Expected results:
Build even extra large rpm.

Additional info:
Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2010-06-10 12:03:43 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.
Comment 9 Panu Matilainen 2010-06-29 07:54:38 UTC 
Closing NOTABUG as per comment 7.