Failure to package Railties 3.1.4 with rpm

[mathie]

Trying to bundle up all our gem dependencies into an RPM for deployment, I came across a curious error:

Processing files: gem-bundle-2012.05.16.11.23.25-1
error: File not found: [...]/ruby/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.1.4/lib/rails/generators/rails/plugin_new/templates/gem-bundle%.gemspec

It turns out that railties has a file called %name%.gemspec, and a directory called %name%. I guess that RPM is helpfully substituting %name with the package name. I'm not terribly familiar with RPM any longer, but http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/Macros (search the page for '%%') seems to suggest that literal % signs should be escaped by doubling them up?

Meanwhile, I'm going to work around it by nuking those files for now – we won't be templating up any new Rails apps in production anyway. :)

[jordansissel]

haha, fpm finds all kinds of strange behaviors in rpm ;)

I'll have a go at reproducing this and fixing it with the %% escape. Thanks for reporting!

[rajatvig]

Bothered by the same one right now for Railties 3.2.3 with an error like

RPM build errors: Macro %_binary_filedigest_algorithm has empty body Macro %_binary_payload has empty body Macro %_binary_filedigest_algorithm has empty body Macro %_binary_payload has empty body File not found: /tmp/package-rpm-build20120524-4701-39cn6v/BUILD/var/lib/nginx/callcenter/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.2.3/lib/rails/generators/rails/plugin_new/templates/callcenter%.gemspec File not found: /tmp/package-rpm-build20120524-4701-39cn6v/BUILD/var/lib/nginx/callcenter/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.2.3/lib/rails/generators/rails/plugin_new/templates/app/controllers/callcenter%/application_controller.rb.tt File not found: /tmp/package-rpm-build20120524-4701-39cn6v/BUILD/var/lib/nginx/callcenter/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.2.3/lib/rails/generators/rails/plugin_new/templates/app/helpers/callcenter%/application_helper.rb.tt File not found: /tmp/package-rpm-build20120524-4701-39cn6v/BUILD/var/lib/nginx/callcenter/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.2.3/lib/rails/generators/rails/plugin_new/templates/app/views/layouts/callcenter%/application.html.erb.tt File not found: /tmp/package-rpm-build20120524-4701-39cn6v/BUILD/var/lib/nginx/callcenter/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.2.3/lib/rails/generators/rails/plugin_new/templates/lib/callcenter%/engine.rb File not found: /tmp/package-rpm-build20120524-4701-39cn6v/BUILD/var/lib/nginx/callcenter/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.2.3/lib/rails/generators/rails/plugin_new/templates/lib/callcenter%/version.rb File not found: /tmp/package-rpm-build20120524-4701-39cn6v/BUILD/var/lib/nginx/callcenter/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.2.3/lib/rails/generators/rails/plugin_new/templates/lib/callcenter%.rb File not found: /tmp/package-rpm-build20120524-4701-39cn6v/BUILD/var/lib/nginx/callcenter/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.2.3/lib/rails/generators/rails/plugin_new/templates/lib/tasks/callcenter%_tasks.rake File not found: /tmp/package-rpm-build20120524-4701-39cn6v/BUILD/var/lib/nginx/callcenter/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.2.3/lib/rails/generators/rails/plugin_new/templates/test/callcenter%_test.rb

[skull-squadron]

+1

[jordansissel]

I've tried many different attempts to escape '%' in filenames. All have failed. I've escalated to the rpm mailling list seeking aid :)

[jordansissel]

This might actually be the nail in rpmbuild's coffin. Could use this bug as incentive to finish my work on the pure-ruby rpm read/write library (reading is already implemented).

[hatless]

Meh. Nuking the files too. Not so good, as this could result at some point in apps blowing up due to missing files referenced by some require somewhere.

[jordansissel]

indeed, I'll see if I can come up with a solution here.

[jordansissel]

I got it working with --exclude

[jordansissel]

This is the command known to fail:

• fpm -s gem -t rpm -v 3.2.3 railties

This succeeds:

• fpm -s gem -t rpm -v 3.2.3 --exclude '*%*' railties

It excludes any files with '%' in the name.

[jordansissel]

% ruby bin/fpm -s gem -t rpm --exclude '*%*' -v 3.2.3 railties 
Successfully installed railties-3.2.3
1 gem installed
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.AcNxKs
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ObIpLk
Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.KqoVLc
Processing files: rubygem-railties-3.2.3-1.noarch
Wrote: /tmp/package-rpm-build20120807-6642-1wnw47m/RPMS/noarch/rubygem-railties-3.2.3-1.noarch.rpm
Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.XP9hH8
Created rpm {"path":"rubygem-railties-3.2.3-1.noarch.rpm"}

[hatless]

Much obliged.

[jordansissel]

Thanks to #266:

% ruby bin/fpm -s gem -t rpm -v 3.1.4 railties 
Fetching: railties-3.1.4.gem (100%)
Successfully installed railties-3.1.4
1 gem installed
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.p0kJc1
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.nvzVgT
Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.lnJJlL
Processing files: rubygem-railties-3.1.4-1.noarch
Wrote: /tmp/package-rpm-build20120926-22163-vyi0bj/RPMS/noarch/rubygem-railties-3.1.4-1.noarch.rpm
Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.v53PtG
Created rpm {"path":"rubygem-railties-3.1.4-1.noarch.rpm"}