koji build dies with "Bad arg to %patch: %build"

Tom Lane tgl at redhat.com
Tue Jul 29 01:39:53 UTC 2008


Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> writes:
> It's actually having problems with one of your %patch arguments.  The
> srpm is initially created on a RHEL5 system, before passed to mock, so
> perhaps rpm on RHEL5 doesn't accept the -F flag...  that is the recent
> thing you changed right?

Doh, that must be it.  Thanks for the clue.

(Is it really a good idea to be using a back-rev rpm for one part of
the build process, and the latest and greatest for other parts?  It
certainly calls future build reproducibility into question, if you ask
me.)

			regards, tom lane




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