The error comes from this lines in the RPM source code:
if (initAttrs(fc) < 1) {
rpmlog(RPMLOG_ERR, _("No file attributes configured\n"));
goto exit;
}
initAttrs() looks for “%{_fileattrsdir}/*.attr”
To solve this, install the package rpm-devel.
Another solution is to create a file “script.attr” in _fileattrsdir (default: /usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/) with this content:
%__script_requires %{_rpmconfigdir}/script.req
%__script_magic ^.* script[, ].*$
%__script_flags exeonly
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Posted by digulla
How often did you run into a problem, googled for it and eventually found a solution because someone else had had the same problem?
In this process, the key issue is to find a good query for Google.
Wouldn’t it be nice if your computer would support you here?
It wouldn’t even be hard to implement: When an error happens, programming languages have context, say, a stack trace. Some programs like the H2 database and Maven already use something like that: Every error message contains a URL where you can find additional information.
So what we would need is a wiki for stack traces.
And a plug-in for our favorite IDE to find similar stack traces in this wiki.
Kudos go to Marcel Bruch for the idea.
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Posted by digulla
Should you ever encounter this message:
ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column tips
then chances are you tried to insert more than 4096 characters at once.
Again the price for useless error messages goes to … Oracle! 😉
To add insult to injury, I couldn’t find anything useful related to this error with Oracle’s own site search.
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