David Bolt skrev:
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Anders Norrbring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:-All of a sudden, my create_package_descr fails to complete.. I haven't edited anything by myself, so if there has been changes introduced, they've been made by the 10.2 system auto-update. Can someone please advice? # create_package_descr -d rpm/ -o setup/descr/ -x setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV using settings: datadirs: rpm/ languages: english output dir: setup/descr/ is not a directory: ignoring extra_provides: setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV Can't call method "size" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/create_package_descr line 171. ....................................................................... ...........I had the same problem which was caused by broken links[0]. My solution[1] was to get rid of them using: find -L -type l -exec rm '{}' \; Check to see if you have a zero-byte file or a broken link under rpm/. You'll probably find that was the cause. [0] I create a local mirror of the update server using rsync, and then run create_package_descr on my local mirror. For some reason, some of the links created by rsync point to non-existent files and create_package_descr was falling over because of it. [1] The second solution was to use --exclude src/*.spm as another option for rsync. Regards, David Bolt
Thanks David!Deleting all symlinks helped.. I didn't even think about that. I've added it to my update scripts, and they seems to work just fine now!
-- Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting
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