rpmbuild cannot package large files in RHEL 4 and 5
Issue
- Attempting to rpmbuild with a file larger than 2Gb throws an error "error: Package too large (> 2147483647 bytes)"
- attempt to create rpm that consists of large >2GB tarballs fails
- RHEL5 rpm cannot archive files greater than 2GB with current cpio component.
- rpmbuild segfaults while trying to build a package with files > 2Gb in RHEL 4.6-4.7
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 Update 6 or later
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
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