On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Anders Norrbring
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 -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ AMD1800 1GB WinXP/SUSE 9.3 | AMD2400 256MB SuSE 9.3 | A3010 4MB RISCOS 3.11 AMD2600(64) 512MB SUSE 10.0 | AMD2400 768MB SUSE 10.0 | A4000 4MB RISCOS 3.11 AMD2800(64) 512MB SUSE 10.1 | RPC600 129MB RISCOS 3.6 | Falcon 14MB TOS 4.02 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org