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03/26/2003 Entry: "Arrrrgggghh!"

Arrrrgggghh!

I spent 3 hours yesterday screwing with rpmbuild spec files trying to understand why my spec file worked last Friday but not today. RPM hates dos files! Dammit! Once I ran dos2unix blah.spec everything worked perfectly again. I HATE all the unix/dos/Windows file format differences. I HATE having to strip out ^M and other invisible formatting from my dos files. Why didn't RPM complain that the file was in DOS format in the first place? Why couldn't I get an actual, meaningful error message? All I got was random crap about stuff totally unrelated to the real problem. It should be able to traverse the file and search for the offending formatting, either stripping them out or telling me to do so. This really, really sucked.

Arrrrgggghh!

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