https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185118 Bug ID: 1185118 Summary: %attr rule with missing closing paren causes inscrutable error messages Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed Version: Current Hardware: Other URL: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/ 1648 OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem Assignee: jeffm@suse.com Reporter: jeffm@suse.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de CC: mls@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- When a malformed rule such as: %dir %attr(-,root,root /path/to/file is encountered, rpmbuild fails with an error message like: error: File must begin with "/": n�L�_;^? This is due to the check for the closing paren as found in other rule handlers is missing. When the rule is overwritten by spaces, parseForAttr assumes that the final character is the closing paren and will overwrite the entire string including the NUL terminator. Later, since the entire string is spaces and also not NUL terminated, the error message will include whatever garbage happens to be after the end of the string. Reported upstream as https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/1648 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.