%files question

Stuart Sears stuart at sjsears.com
Mon Apr 3 15:54:12 UTC 2006


On Monday 03 April 2006 16:41, Dey Niranjan wrote:
> I am trying to build an rpm for php, but when I enter the list of files,
> the build fails. The reason seems to be that if the list is more than about
> 26 files, then it doesn't work. If the list is only 26 files, or less, then
> the build is successful. Can anyone tell me why that might be? Is there a
> limit to the number of files that can be packaged?
not AFAIK. Otherwise we'd have an absolute nightmare building RPMs for 
anything at all complicated. glibc (on this system) contains over 300 files.

exactly what is the error message you are seeing?
perhaps your %files list  (or the whole spec file) might be useful too.

Regards

Stuart
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