Paul, is it only the dCache rpms that fail to build or 
do other rpms also fail to build?  did you try to build some other rpm?
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Steve Timm

On Wed, 5 Aug 2015, Paul Millar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't know if this is the correct place to report this, but a recent 
> security upgrade broke Scientific Linux 6.6 for building RPM packages.
>
> The update was to 4.8.0-47:
>
>    [root@vm-dcache-wn-sl6 ~]# grep Aug\ 04\ 04.*rpm /var/log/yum.log
>    Aug 04 04:34:44 Installed: redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-44.sl6.noarch
>    Aug 04 04:34:46 Updated: rpm-4.8.0-47.el6.x86_64
>    Aug 04 04:34:46 Updated: rpm-libs-4.8.0-47.el6.x86_64
>    Aug 04 04:34:47 Updated: rpm-build-4.8.0-47.el6.x86_64
>    Aug 04 04:34:47 Updated: rpm-python-4.8.0-47.el6.x86_64
>    [root@vm-dcache-wn-sl6 ~]#
>
> This happened automatically, via yum-autoupdate.
>
> After this upgrade, the rpmbuild command started to fail.  The command that 
> failed was:
>
>    rpmbuild -bb --define _topdir <> --buildroot <> 
> <>/SPECS/dcache-srmclient.spec
>
> where I've used a "<>" to represent the absolute paths in the command.
>
> The problem may be reproduced by cloning dCache from github and running the 
> command:
>
>    mvn -am -pl modules/srm-client clean package -DskipTests -Prpm
>
> Down-grading to v4.8.0-37 (and uninstalling the 'redhat-rpm-config' package) 
> is sufficient to fix the problem.
>
> To confirm the cause, I re-ran yum manually, which upgraded the RPM packages 
> to v4.8.0-47.  This reintroduced the problem; so I am pretty convinced the 
> problem is with this security upgrade.
>
> What I find odd is that there is no mention of a security issue with RPM, so 
> it isn't clear why the RPM packages have been updated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>

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