why rpmbuild deletes the BUILD directory?

password636 · 04-15-2011, 04:32 AM

Hi,

I'm using rpmbuild 4.8.0 to build my rpm package on RHEL6. The spec file works just fine with any other Linux Releases, including RHEL5. But at the end, build failed with:
"shell-init error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory"
I found that rpmbuild tried to compare the BUILD directory with the root filesystem, it will delete the BUILD directory if it's not '/'. My working directory is /tmp/test, so something like this in the /var/tmp/rpm-tmp file:

Code:

cd "/tmp/test/BUILD"
[ "RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != "/" ] && rm -rf "${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}"

I think this is the reason why the command failed.
And I can't find the two lines of similar code in an earlier version of rpmbuild on RHEL5.
Why rpmbuild does this?

THANKS!

unSpawn · 04-15-2011, 04:51 AM

If you use define _tmppath in your .spec file you can use "BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}" and subsequently "[ "${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}" = "%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}" ]"?

password636 · 04-15-2011, 06:13 AM

Is this issue kind of a bug?

unSpawn · 04-15-2011, 08:58 AM

No. I your rpmbuild failed run it again as 'rpmbuild /path/to/packagename.spec 2>&1 | tee /tmp/rpmbuild.$$' and look at that log. If you can't find the error(s) post the contents of that temp file, preferably in BB code tags.

password636 · 04-17-2011, 10:40 PM

I'm sorry. I gave some wrong information in my first post. Below is what I meant.
My working directory: /tmp/test
And in the .spec file:
%global _name testrpm
%global _pwd %(pwd)
BuildRoot: %{_pwd}/%{name}

Below is what happened when using the command line: rpmbuild -bb --buildroot=$PWD/testrpm --target=noarch testrpm.spec

Code:

Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.v6EVh2
+ umask 022
+ cd /tmp/test/testrpm/BUILD
+ '[' /tmp/test/testrpm '!=' / ']'
+ rm -rf /tmp/test/testrpm
++ dirname /tmp/test/testrpm
+ mkdir -p /tmp/test
+ mkdir /tmp/test/testrpm
+ LANG=C
+ export LANG
+ unset DISPLAY
+ /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
chdir: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory

unSpawn · 04-19-2011, 05:07 PM

CYP just post the complete spec file and any /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.* at the time the error occurs?