During building an RPM package, I got today a strange error:

warning: Recognition of file "/var/tmp/../rsyslog/rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 100644 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)

The error was thrown with different files, which don't have something in common, but not with all of the files in the package. I took the file rsyslog.conf to trace the error:

$MaxMessageSize 700000
$IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog/conf.d/*.conf
module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.Use="off")
input(type="imuxsock" Socket="/var/run/rsyslog/rsyslog.sock" unlink="on")
action(type="omfile" file="/dev/null")

The error is produced by rpmdeps command:

# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
warning: Recognition of file "rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 000000 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)
warning: Deprecated external dependency generator is used!
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires
Finding Conflicts:
Finding Obsoletes:
Finding Recommends:
Finding Suggests:
Finding Supplements:
Finding Enhances:

Tracing further I found that the problem line lays in /usr/opt/rpm/share/misc/magic:

5001:0 regex =^[!-?A-~]{1,255}(\t[^\t]+){11}

Because I didn't the error earlier, I checked the elder versions of rpm.rte. The last version which didn't produce the error was 4.13.0.8:

# lslpp -Lqc rpm.rte
rpm.rte:rpm.rte:4.13.0.8: : :C: :RPM Package Manager: : : : : : :0:0:/:
# rpm --version
RPM version 4.13.0.1
# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires​​​
The newer versions have the updated magic file and the error:

# lslpp -Lqc rpm.rte
rpm.rte:rpm.rte:4.13.0.9: : :C: :RPM Package Manager: : : : : : :0:0:/:
# rpm --version
RPM version 4.13.0.1
# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
warning: Recognition of file "rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 000000 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires

The problem occurs if I use UTF-8 encoding, which is standard on my build system. If I swith to C, everything work OK even with newer version:

$ LANG=C /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires

$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
warning: Recognition of file "rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 000000 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires




​​​​​​​

------------------------------
Andrey Klyachkin

https://www.power-devops.com
------------------------------

Thanks Andrey for the detailed analysis.
There were some changes related to one of the dependency package file from rpm.rte-4.13.0.9 which rpmbuild uses.
Will look into the issue and update the same.

------------------------------
SANGAMESH
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: Mon October 12, 2020 10:24 AM
From: Andrey Klyachkin
Subject: /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps invalid range expression

During building an RPM package, I got today a strange error:

warning: Recognition of file "/var/tmp/../rsyslog/rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 100644 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)

The error was thrown with different files, which don't have something in common, but not with all of the files in the package. I took the file rsyslog.conf to trace the error:

$MaxMessageSize 700000
$IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog/conf.d/*.conf
module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.Use="off")
input(type="imuxsock" Socket="/var/run/rsyslog/rsyslog.sock" unlink="on")
action(type="omfile" file="/dev/null")

The error is produced by rpmdeps command:

# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
warning: Recognition of file "rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 000000 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)
warning: Deprecated external dependency generator is used!
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires
Finding Conflicts:
Finding Obsoletes:
Finding Recommends:
Finding Suggests:
Finding Supplements:
Finding Enhances:

Tracing further I found that the problem line lays in /usr/opt/rpm/share/misc/magic:

5001:0 regex =^[!-?A-~]{1,255}(\t[^\t]+){11}

Because I didn't the error earlier, I checked the elder versions of rpm.rte. The last version which didn't produce the error was 4.13.0.8:

# lslpp -Lqc rpm.rte
rpm.rte:rpm.rte:4.13.0.8: : :C: :RPM Package Manager: : : : : : :0:0:/:
# rpm --version
RPM version 4.13.0.1
# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires​​​
The newer versions have the updated magic file and the error:

# lslpp -Lqc rpm.rte
rpm.rte:rpm.rte:4.13.0.9: : :C: :RPM Package Manager: : : : : : :0:0:/:
# rpm --version
RPM version 4.13.0.1
# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
warning: Recognition of file "rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 000000 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires

The problem occurs if I use UTF-8 encoding, which is standard on my build system. If I swith to C, everything work OK even with newer version:

$ LANG=C /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires

$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
warning: Recognition of file "rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 000000 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires




​​​​​​​

------------------------------
Andrey Klyachkin

https://www.power-devops.com
------------------------------

FYI This issue was raised in a case today. I did some quick testing, and had success if I used the legacy EN_US.UTF-8 instead of the CLDR sourced locale en_US.UTF-8.

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/5692220

------------------------------
Jan Harris
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: Mon October 12, 2020 03:08 PM
From: SANGAMESH MALLAYYA
Subject: /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps invalid range expression

Thanks Andrey for the detailed analysis.
There were some changes related to one of the dependency package file from rpm.rte-4.13.0.9 which rpmbuild uses.
Will look into the issue and update the same.

------------------------------
SANGAMESH

Original Message:
Sent: Mon October 12, 2020 10:24 AM
From: Andrey Klyachkin
Subject: /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps invalid range expression

During building an RPM package, I got today a strange error:

warning: Recognition of file "/var/tmp/../rsyslog/rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 100644 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)

The error was thrown with different files, which don't have something in common, but not with all of the files in the package. I took the file rsyslog.conf to trace the error:

$MaxMessageSize 700000
$IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog/conf.d/*.conf
module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.Use="off")
input(type="imuxsock" Socket="/var/run/rsyslog/rsyslog.sock" unlink="on")
action(type="omfile" file="/dev/null")

The error is produced by rpmdeps command:

# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
warning: Recognition of file "rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 000000 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)
warning: Deprecated external dependency generator is used!
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires
Finding Conflicts:
Finding Obsoletes:
Finding Recommends:
Finding Suggests:
Finding Supplements:
Finding Enhances:

Tracing further I found that the problem line lays in /usr/opt/rpm/share/misc/magic:

5001:0 regex =^[!-?A-~]{1,255}(\t[^\t]+){11}

Because I didn't the error earlier, I checked the elder versions of rpm.rte. The last version which didn't produce the error was 4.13.0.8:

# lslpp -Lqc rpm.rte
rpm.rte:rpm.rte:4.13.0.8: : :C: :RPM Package Manager: : : : : : :0:0:/:
# rpm --version
RPM version 4.13.0.1
# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires​​​
The newer versions have the updated magic file and the error:

# lslpp -Lqc rpm.rte
rpm.rte:rpm.rte:4.13.0.9: : :C: :RPM Package Manager: : : : : : :0:0:/:
# rpm --version
RPM version 4.13.0.1
# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
warning: Recognition of file "rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 000000 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires

The problem occurs if I use UTF-8 encoding, which is standard on my build system. If I swith to C, everything work OK even with newer version:

$ LANG=C /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires

$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
warning: Recognition of file "rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 000000 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires




​​​​​​​

------------------------------
Andrey Klyachkin

https://www.power-devops.com
------------------------------

We did some analysis and here are some of the observations

1. This error doesn't appear if we use EN_US.UTF-8 as you mentioned.
2. This seems to happen if there is a tilde (~) in the pattern.
3. regcomp call is the one which is returning the wrong value.

------------------------------
SANGAMESH
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: Fri November 19, 2021 09:07 AM
From: Jan Harris
Subject: /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps invalid range expression

FYI This issue was raised in a case today. I did some quick testing, and had success if I used the legacy EN_US.UTF-8 instead of the CLDR sourced locale en_US.UTF-8.

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/5692220

------------------------------
Jan Harris

Original Message:
Sent: Mon October 12, 2020 03:08 PM
From: SANGAMESH MALLAYYA
Subject: /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps invalid range expression

Thanks Andrey for the detailed analysis.
There were some changes related to one of the dependency package file from rpm.rte-4.13.0.9 which rpmbuild uses.
Will look into the issue and update the same.

------------------------------
SANGAMESH

Original Message:
Sent: Mon October 12, 2020 10:24 AM
From: Andrey Klyachkin
Subject: /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps invalid range expression

During building an RPM package, I got today a strange error:

warning: Recognition of file "/var/tmp/../rsyslog/rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 100644 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)

The error was thrown with different files, which don't have something in common, but not with all of the files in the package. I took the file rsyslog.conf to trace the error:

$MaxMessageSize 700000
$IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog/conf.d/*.conf
module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.Use="off")
input(type="imuxsock" Socket="/var/run/rsyslog/rsyslog.sock" unlink="on")
action(type="omfile" file="/dev/null")

The error is produced by rpmdeps command:

# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
warning: Recognition of file "rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 000000 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)
warning: Deprecated external dependency generator is used!
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires
Finding Conflicts:
Finding Obsoletes:
Finding Recommends:
Finding Suggests:
Finding Supplements:
Finding Enhances:

Tracing further I found that the problem line lays in /usr/opt/rpm/share/misc/magic:

5001:0 regex =^[!-?A-~]{1,255}(\t[^\t]+){11}

Because I didn't the error earlier, I checked the elder versions of rpm.rte. The last version which didn't produce the error was 4.13.0.8:

# lslpp -Lqc rpm.rte
rpm.rte:rpm.rte:4.13.0.8: : :C: :RPM Package Manager: : : : : : :0:0:/:
# rpm --version
RPM version 4.13.0.1
# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires​​​
The newer versions have the updated magic file and the error:

# lslpp -Lqc rpm.rte
rpm.rte:rpm.rte:4.13.0.9: : :C: :RPM Package Manager: : : : : : :0:0:/:
# rpm --version
RPM version 4.13.0.1
# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
warning: Recognition of file "rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 000000 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires

The problem occurs if I use UTF-8 encoding, which is standard on my build system. If I swith to C, everything work OK even with newer version:

$ LANG=C /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires

$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
warning: Recognition of file "rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 000000 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires




​​​​​​​

------------------------------
Andrey Klyachkin

https://www.power-devops.com
------------------------------

Could somebody please explain what is the status here? I was just trapped by this error on an AIX 7300-01-01-2246 machine.

------------------------------
Sven Willenbücher
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: Wed November 24, 2021 11:59 PM
From: SANGAMESH MALLAYYA
Subject: /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps invalid range expression

We did some analysis and here are some of the observations

1. This error doesn't appear if we use EN_US.UTF-8 as you mentioned.
2. This seems to happen if there is a tilde (~) in the pattern.
3. regcomp call is the one which is returning the wrong value.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <regex.h>
#include <locale.h>
int main()
{
    regex_t rx;
    char *pat = "^[!-?A-~]{1,255}(\t[^\t]+){11}";
    int flags = REG_EXTENDED|REG_NEWLINE;
    int rc = 0;
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.UTF-8");
    printf("rc:%d\n", regcomp(&rx, pat, flags));
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "EN_US.UTF-8");
    printf("rc:%d\n", regcomp(&rx, pat, flags));
}
# gcc -o regcomp_v regcomp_v.c
# ./regcomp_v
rc:11
rc:0

We raised a defect against regcomp.

------------------------------
SANGAMESH

Original Message:
Sent: Fri November 19, 2021 09:07 AM
From: Jan Harris
Subject: /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps invalid range expression

FYI This issue was raised in a case today. I did some quick testing, and had success if I used the legacy EN_US.UTF-8 instead of the CLDR sourced locale en_US.UTF-8.

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/5692220

------------------------------
Jan Harris

Original Message:
Sent: Mon October 12, 2020 03:08 PM
From: SANGAMESH MALLAYYA
Subject: /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps invalid range expression

Thanks Andrey for the detailed analysis.
There were some changes related to one of the dependency package file from rpm.rte-4.13.0.9 which rpmbuild uses.
Will look into the issue and update the same.

------------------------------
SANGAMESH

Original Message:
Sent: Mon October 12, 2020 10:24 AM
From: Andrey Klyachkin
Subject: /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps invalid range expression

During building an RPM package, I got today a strange error:

warning: Recognition of file "/var/tmp/../rsyslog/rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 100644 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)

The error was thrown with different files, which don't have something in common, but not with all of the files in the package. I took the file rsyslog.conf to trace the error:

$MaxMessageSize 700000
$IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog/conf.d/*.conf
module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.Use="off")
input(type="imuxsock" Socket="/var/run/rsyslog/rsyslog.sock" unlink="on")
action(type="omfile" file="/dev/null")

The error is produced by rpmdeps command:

# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
warning: Recognition of file "rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 000000 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)
warning: Deprecated external dependency generator is used!
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires
Finding Conflicts:
Finding Obsoletes:
Finding Recommends:
Finding Suggests:
Finding Supplements:
Finding Enhances:

Tracing further I found that the problem line lays in /usr/opt/rpm/share/misc/magic:

5001:0 regex =^[!-?A-~]{1,255}(\t[^\t]+){11}

Because I didn't the error earlier, I checked the elder versions of rpm.rte. The last version which didn't produce the error was 4.13.0.8:

# lslpp -Lqc rpm.rte
rpm.rte:rpm.rte:4.13.0.8: : :C: :RPM Package Manager: : : : : : :0:0:/:
# rpm --version
RPM version 4.13.0.1
# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires​​​
The newer versions have the updated magic file and the error:

# lslpp -Lqc rpm.rte
rpm.rte:rpm.rte:4.13.0.9: : :C: :RPM Package Manager: : : : : : :0:0:/:
# rpm --version
RPM version 4.13.0.1
# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
warning: Recognition of file "rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 000000 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires

The problem occurs if I use UTF-8 encoding, which is standard on my build system. If I swith to C, everything work OK even with newer version:

$ LANG=C /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires

$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps rsyslog.conf
warning: Recognition of file "rsyslog.conf" failed: mode 000000 line 156: regex error 11 for `^[!-?A-~]{1,255}( [^ ]+){11}', (invalid range expression)
Finding Provides: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-provides
Finding Requires(interp):
Finding Requires(rpmlib):
Finding Requires(verify):
Finding Requires(pre):
Finding Requires(post):
Finding Requires(preun):
Finding Requires(postun):
Finding Requires(pretrans):
Finding Requires(posttrans):
Finding Requires: /usr/opt/rpm/lib/rpm/find-requires




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Andrey Klyachkin

https://www.power-devops.com
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