Experimental patch to improve error handling

rpm-5.4.10-postpone_subpackage_build_failures.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+--- ./build/files.c.subpackage_failures~	2013-05-22 18:56:03.629212893 +0400
++++ ./build/files.c	2013-05-22 19:07:50.697775045 +0400
+@@ -2513,8 +2513,8 @@
+     
+     files = argvFree(files);
+ 
+-    if (fl.processingFailed)
+-	goto exit;
++/*    if (fl.processingFailed)
++	goto exit;*/
+ 
+     /* Verify that file attributes scope over hardlinks correctly. */
+     if (checkHardLinks(&fl))
+@@ -3147,6 +3147,7 @@
+     HE_t he = (HE_t) memset(alloca(sizeof(*he)), 0, sizeof(*he));
+     Package pkg;
+     rpmRC res = RPMRC_OK;
++    short failed_once = 0;
+     
+     char *buildroot = rpmExpand("%{?buildroot}", NULL);
+     size_t buildrootL = strlen(buildroot);
+@@ -3167,22 +3168,23 @@
+ 	he->p.ptr = _free(he->p.ptr);
+ 		   
+ 	if ((rc = processPackageFiles(spec, pkg, installSpecialDoc, test))) {
+-	    res = RPMRC_FAIL;
+-	    (void) headerMacrosUnload(pkg->header);
+-	    break;
++	    failed_once = 1;
+ 	}
+ 
+ 	/* Finalize package scriptlets before extracting dependencies. */
+ 	if ((rc = processScriptFiles(spec, pkg))) {
+ 	    res = rc;
+ 	    (void) headerMacrosUnload(pkg->header);
+-	    break;
++	    if  (res == RPMRC_FAIL) {
++	        failed_once = 1;
++	    }
++	    else {
++	        break;
++	    }
+ 	}
+ 
+ 	if ((rc = rpmfcGenerateDepends(spec, pkg))) {
+-	    res = RPMRC_FAIL;
+-	    (void) headerMacrosUnload(pkg->header);
+-	    break;
++	    failed_once = 1;
+ 	}
+ 
+ 	/* XXX this should be earlier for deps to be entirely sorted. */
+@@ -3191,7 +3193,10 @@
+ 	(void) headerMacrosUnload(pkg->header);
+     }
+ 
+-    if (res == RPMRC_OK) {
++    if (failed_once == 1)
++        res = RPMRC_FAIL;
++
++/*    if (res == RPMRC_OK) {*/
+ 	int _duplicate_files_terminate_build =
+ 	    rpmExpandNumeric("%{?_duplicate_files_terminate_build}");
+ 	int _unpackaged_subdirs_terminate_build =
+@@ -3204,7 +3209,7 @@
+ 	if (checkUnpackagedSubdirs(spec, buildrootL, _unpackaged_subdirs_terminate_build) > 0 &&
+ 		_unpackaged_subdirs_terminate_build)
+     	    res = RPMRC_FAIL;
+-    }
++/*    }*/
+     
+     return res;
+ }

rpm.spec

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Summary:	The RPM package management system
 Name:		rpm
 Epoch:		1
 Version:	%{libver}.%{minorver}
-Release:	%{?prereldate:0.%{prereldate}.}10
+Release:	%{?prereldate:0.%{prereldate}.}11
 License:	LGPLv2.1+
 Group:		System/Configuration/Packaging
 URL:		http://rpm5.org/
@@ -368,6 +368,8 @@ Patch502:	rpm-5.4.9-package-name.patch
 # for specspo
 Patch503:	rpm-5.4.9-specspo.patch
 
+Patch504:       rpm-5.4.10-postpone_subpackage_build_failures.patch
+
 BuildRequires:	autoconf >= 2.57
 BuildRequires:	bzip2-devel
 BuildRequires:	automake >= 1.8
@@ -735,6 +737,7 @@ This package contains the RPM API documentation generated in HTML format.
 %patch501 -p1 -b .rosa_vendor~
 %patch502 -p1 -b .package_name~
 %patch503 -p1 -b .specspo~
+%patch504 -p1 -b .postpone_errors~
 
 #required by P55, P80, P81, P94..
 ./autogen.sh