On Apr 15, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Todd Rinaldo wrote:
> In my spec, I had:
>
> %define _use_internal_dependency_generator 0
> %define __perl_prov to %{nil}
> %define __find_provides %{SOURCE4}
> %define __perl_req to %{nil}
> %define __find_requires %{SOURCE3}
>
> when I built against the spec file though, I was getting an obscure error:
>
> Finding Provides: /home/rpmbuild/rpm-build/SOURCES/filter-rpm-provides.pl
> getOutputFrom(): Broken pipe
>
> The reason turned out to be that I was dieing in my provides.pl script.
> Problem 1: I had no way to be sure that the broken pipe was with
> filter-rpm-provides.pl.
> Problem 2: I had no access to STDERR from that script to know why it was
> failing. Also simulating the stdin to that program is not always trivial.
>
> Could I suggest that when __find_requires/provides scripts are called, STDERR
> output be relayed into the output from rpmbuild so it's more clear why this
> failure is happening?
>
What version of rpm?
What is in Source3: and Source4:?
Even better, if you post a URL to the src.rpm, I'll show you
how to use the PLD-derived dependency filtering. Its way
way easier than what you are doing ...
73 de Jeff
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