RPM filesize limitation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5
Issue
RPM was designed around signed 32-bit integers, thus each file had up to 2GB and the whole archive containing all files had up to 2GB too.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- All rpm packages
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