Dear Friends,

Require your help in building rpm from php-5.5.3-1.fc21.src.rpm

During the %prep stage , tries to do tar extract of .tar.xz format, where it fails.

Could we change the rpm spec ( in %setup section)to run the below commands to uncompress the file instead of its default tar xz .

xz -d php-5.5.3-strip.tar.xz
tar -xvf php-5.5.3-strip.tar

<code>
rpmbuild -ba /home/santoshk/testpk/rpmbuild/SPECS/php.spec

Get the below error:
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.65192
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/santoshk/testpk/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ rm -rf php-5.5.3
+ tar -xf /home/santoshk/testpk/rpmbuild/SOURCES/php-5.5.3-strip.tar.xz
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Read 476 bytes from /home/santoshk/testpk/rpmbuild/SOURCES/php-5.5.3-strip.tar.xz
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.65192 (%prep)
<code>



Rpm spec:
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%prep
%setup -q -n php-%{version}%{?rcver}

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Have php-5.5.3-strip.tar.xz when build the php-5.5.3-1.fc21.src.rpm


Thanks

Santosh

in that case I think you need to skip %setup and untar it before running rpmbuild.

I think rpmbuild is looking for a .tar.gz file and doesn't recognize the .tar.xz format.

I suggest uncompressing the .tar.xz and recompressing to .tar.gz, then try again to build your rpm.

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Yes, you can do that.


About tar : Will recognize xz since 2010.. 2011.
I.e. if you have an "old" OS like RHEL 5 / CentOS 5,
the tar version is too old to include xz / lzma in the
"Automatically Determining Compression Based on File Extension".
https://library.linode.com/linux-too...file-extension

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looks like you need to upgrade rpm: http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.7.0