RPM filesize limitation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5

Solution Verified - Updated -

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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