An issue with fpm 1.16 in OL8 not reading the special character in dir name

[Manish2481983]

I encountered an issue with fpm 1.16 where directory names with {{ label }} enclosed in quotes do not work as expected. When the directory name is in quotes, it causes the following file-not-found error:

error: File not found: /tmp/package-rpm-build-d14a72e6d0fc6578070ae6940bf08df171015f7714de4e0a9ff4cd7d1b69/BUILD/opt/sfw/foo-79.4/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cement/cli/templates/generate/plugin/{{?label?}}/controllers/__init__.py {:level=>:info, :file=>"cabin/mixins/pipe.rb", :line=>"47", :method=>"block in pipe"}
error: File not found: /tmp/package-rpm-build-d14a72e6d0fc6578070ae6940bf08df171015f7714de4e0a9ff4cd7d1b69/BUILD/opt/sfw/foo-79.4/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cement/cli/templates/generate/plugin/{{?label?}}/controllers/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc {:level=>:info, :file=>"cabin/mixins/pipe.rb", :line=>"47", :method=>"block in pipe"}

However, if the quotes around the directory name {{ label }} are removed or dir is removed, everything works fine. It seems that fpm 1.16 has trouble processing directory names that contain {{ label }} in quotes.

Please let me know if there is a known workaround or if further investigation is needed.

I am using fpm 1.16

[jordansissel]

Sorry you're having trouble. FPM should be able to package this, but in this case, it has a problem telling rpmbuild about the file - this is a bug in fpm, sorta, because rpmbuild makes it difficult to express filenames with spaces or non-alphanumeric characters.

I've opened #2088 with a patch that fixes this for me when I try to use the same files as in the Python cement library.

[jordansissel]

@Manish2481983 Do you know what version of rpmbuild you have installed? I found a solution, but it only works to build rpms on systems which have rpm version 4.19 or newer.

[Manish2481983]

Thanks @jordansissel for investigating this.
I am having RPM version 4.14.3 on OL8

rpmbuild --version
RPM version 4.14.3

[Manish2481983]

Hi @jordansissel Any update on this ?

[jordansissel]

#2088 should now work on older rpm version, but I still have a few changes to make before merging. I don't have any ETA on merging as this work is on spare time which is small these days.

[Manish2481983]

Thanks @jordansissel for this update. will wait till then.