RPM not supporting large files
 

I currently using RPM version 4.4.2.3. It fails to build with files larger than 2 GB and file sets larger than 3 GB.

I have files larger than 2 GB and sets larger than 3 GB.

Is there a work around, possibly a switch or option for RPM, that will ignore this limitation?

Chris

??? are you currently using the old RHEL 4 ??? or something different?

and what exactly are you tiring to do ?
build a rpm from many source folders ?

I am working with RPM on RHEL5. The deleopers are trying to build one large RPM file. It worked with our old RPM version on RHEL 4. On RHEL5 release 3 RPM creation is faliing due (I think) to the large file restriction.

Chris

You are usually better off splitting large rpms into several(many) smaller rpms. One then sets these smaller rpms as dependencies of the "master" rpm. An easy example of this is to look at how wine is installed.

Unfortunately the developers are looking for a solution where RPM can work with their existing large files.

One suggestion was to install RPM 4.6 which supposedly has large file support.

Anyone know if I'd have any problems having 2 versions of RPM on 1 box? Can they co-exist?

Chris

You might want to point your developers at the discussions on why the community moved away from large rpms. There are really no valid reasons to use monolithic rpms.

Anyone know if 2 versions of RPM's can exist together. I see all the dependencies tied to one version and question whether it can be done.

i do not know , but i also would not even try .Most likely you will FUBAR one or both.

and why would you even need TWO versions of it installed ?

Someone suggested that version 4.6 supports large files. I thought it would be easier to add to existing system, rather than remove the current version and then add it.