Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (241 mails)

[Anders Norrbring <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Bolt skrev:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Anders Norrbring <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:-
>
> > 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

Thanks David!
Deleting all symlinks helped.. I didn't even think about that. I've 
added it to my update scripts, and they seems to work just fine now!
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Anders Norrbring
Norrbring Consulting