Odd error message on build blender-2.66-1.fc19

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Thu Feb 21 22:31:07 UTC 2013


On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:23:25 +0000
"Michael E. Maher" <michael at maheronline.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Jochen,
> 
> > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.lr1DY2 (%install)
> >     bogus date in %changelog: Sun Jan 30 2006 Jochen Schmitt
> > <Jochen herr-schmitt de> 2.41-1
> 
> 30th January 2006 was a Monday not a Sunday.
> 
> > 
> > So I would to like to ask, if anyone have an idea about the error
> > message relating to /usr/lib/rpm/debugedit?
> 
> I'm no expert in these things, but I believe a recent RPM version
> added stricter checks for dates in the change log.
> 
> Changing 'Sun' to 'Mon' should clear the error, assuming that the date
> is correct.

Note that rpm simply warns about this, it doesn't fail on it (at least
not yet). So the error is likely further up in your logs... 

"/usr/lib/rpm/debugedit: canonicalization unexpectedly shrank by one
character"

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304121

kevin
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