On 02/13/2015 05:58 PM, David.Dembrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I have a spec file to package an internal application that generates the > following error messages which appear to happen before the prep section: > > tar: Error in writing to standard output > tar: Error is not recoverable exiting now > > then it starts processing the prep section, and eventually successfully > builds the rpm packages. > > Can someone help me track down what the problem is and how I may get rid > of the problem. Hard to tell without the spec file. You are aware that the %setup macro will try to unpack the source tarball, right? Florian Red Hat GmbH, http://www.de.redhat.com/ Registered seat: Grasbrunn, Commercial register: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRB 153243, Managing Directors: Charles Cachera, Michael Cunningham, Michael O'Neill, Charles Peters _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list