On 14 May 2010, at 2:35 AM, Roberto wrote: On 20 May 2010, at 3:25 AM, Paul Maunders wrote: Yes, this is a problem with cobbler-2.0.4-1 in EPEL testing. Ccing - devel for bugfix discussion. This problem almost certainly due to commit f0b6e96 (Build the man pages from the spec files, 2010-02-16). Probably the problem is that the specfile's pod2man invocation fails (because docs/*.pod are not present?) but rpmbuild doesn't notice because it collects the exit status of gzip, which happily compresses nothing while truncating docs/ *.1.gz. My guess is that this commit should just be reverted, because it seems the "make rpms" target wants to generate the manpages, then have "setup.py sdist" include them in the source distribution. But I'm confused because there are so many (too many?) ways to build from source -- "make rpms", "make sdist && rpmbuild -ta", "git archive && rpmbuild -ta", "setup.py sdist && rpmbuild -ta", ... Cc also to Scott, the EPEL maintainer, who will know best. -- Ian Ward Comfort <icomfort(a)stanford.edu&gt; Systems Team Lead, Academic Computing Services, Stanford University