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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.
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.
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.
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.
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