Bug 620674
| Summary: | [RFE] xz support in RHEL 5 rpm | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Issue Tracker <tao> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Panu Matilainen <pmatilai> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.7 | CC: | bugzilla, herrold, ksrot, mkhusid, rdassen, rmunilla, superber, tao, yury |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | FutureFeature, Triaged |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | rpm-4.4.2.3-26.el5 | Doc Type: | Enhancement |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2012-02-21 06:45:50 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 554476, 726448, 769266 | ||
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Description
Issue Tracker
2010-08-03 08:56:30 UTC
Any ETA for this? If this won't be done, a complete reinstall would be the only choice. It's very useful to prepare version N files on version N-1. This isn't possible currently with RHEL 5/6. What's the official line from RH Product Management on whether rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) support will be backported to RHEL5? If it's a FutureFeature, will it be released as an errata or included in the next 5.X release? Philip -- most of the problem arises from the addition of xz to the tar used by RPM in the later EL This workaround is in the EPEL documentation pages, and is a fairly minimal edit to most .spec files http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies at: Distribution specific guidelines Tar in EL 5 and earlier does not support extracting xz-compressed tarballs. To extract such tarballs, use the following %prep section: %prep xzcat %{SOURCE0} | tar -xf - %setup -qDT ------------------- As I recall, 'file' also was not aware of the needed magic numbers although this may have been addressed I recall seeing a set of RPM mentioned in EPEL mailing list to 'step around' the lack of 'xz' support, but cannot put my finger on it at the moment ------------------- All that said, a backport would be nice ;) -- Russ herrold This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I poked around my archives a bit when I saw this update to find the tools I mentioned in comment 7 -- I posted a README and archive, with the tools at: ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/mirror/ORC/rpm-xz/ in case the Fedora archive of such disappears (it is in a 'side' archive, and not one that is easily found) -- Russ herrold FYI: See comment to bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490613 regarding the backports done by Fedora Infrastructure team. 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. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0283.html |