Single remaining F16 Alpha blocker bug is in rpm, and needs help

[Adam Williamson]

Hey, folks. We're down to a single confirmed blocker without a fix
preventing us composing Fedora 16 Alpha RC4, but it's in rpm and we
haven't really had much feed-in from the rpm maintainers. Can anyone who
thinks they could play an rpm developer on TV please take a look at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728707 and see if you can
help? It seems the issue is to do with rpm's handling of directory names
in file lists: it treats /some/path/ and /some/path differently, and
winds up removing the directory if the entry changes from one format to
the other...this combined with a bug in one specific rpm build which
appended a trailing / to the file list entry for any directory in the
package, even if the spec didn't specify one, to cause trouble. Details
are in the bug, thanks to Kalev Lember for some of the investigative
work on this one. thanks all!
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