On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 23:15 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> This is a bug in rpm/glibc. stracing rpm shows that it globs out
> "%{_bindir}/*" by calling stat() on each filename.
>
> In an RPM buildroot image, intra-package soft links are obviously broken,
> since they point outside the buildroot. stat() fails on them.
>
> Bug 139460.
>
> Looks like recently rpm switched from lstat() to stat(), when globbing out
> %files.
>
> This bug must've been hiding for quite some time. You'll only hit it if
> you're building a package that installs softlinks for the first time, or if
> the newer version of an installed package installs new soft links.
> Otherwise, inside the build root the softlinks point to the existing
> installation's files, outside of the buildroot, stat() succeeds, and rpm
> processes the results from glob().
Most packages avoid this problem by using relative softlinks instead of
absolute ones, e.g.
ln -s ../../some.dir/some.file $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/other.dir/some.file
instead of
ln -s /some.dir/some.file $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/other.dir/some.file
This then works both inside and outside the buildroot.
Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
