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Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity.
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support oversized rpms #168

Open jordansissel opened 12 years ago

jordansissel commented 12 years ago

rpm has a design fault that causes it to fail to allow packages larger than 2 gigs (or 8gb, I think, depending on the version of rpm/cpio).

FPM can solve this.

My current proposal is to split the data up into chunks (smaller than the limit), putting each chunk into an rpm by itself, then producing a metapackage that requires all of the chunk packages and includes a post-install script that re-assembles the chunks. Should also include a pre-uninstall script that removes the assembled stuff.

The idea is that you end up with a few RPMs:

And you just 'yum install mypackage' and just does the right things to get your large package installed.

ibawolf commented 7 years ago

playing with this myself, and have hit the same issue trying to build rpm on CentOS7. Any updates? Any suggestions?