rpmbuild and whitespace in path names

[Sam Varshavchik]

Felix Schwarz writes:

> Hi,
> 
> can anyone help me building rpms when the _topdir path name contains whitespace?

The short answer: don't do it.

Too many things are going to break.

It's just not worth it trying to get it to work.

> Any hints how to resolve that issue? If not, does anyone know the bug report number in 
> bugzilla (I didn't find one)?

You must've missed the memo.  rpm is not being actively developed, and is in 
danger of stagnation.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-December/msg00003.html


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