+########## nodeimage
+# with this distro we reach the bootstrapfs tarballs with these sizes for last attempt
+# 2263306240 /var/www/html/boot/bootstrapfs-wexlxc-f16-x86_64.tar
+# 639539315 /var/www/html/boot/bootstrapfs-wexlxc-f16-x86_64.tar.bz2
+#
+# related or not, rpm fails like this
+# Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /longbuildroot/BUILDROOT/nodeimage-wexlxc-f16-x86_64-2.1-2.2012.11.29.x86_64
+# Wrote: /longbuildroot/RPMS/noarch/nodeimage-wexlxc-f16-x86_64-2.1-2.2012.11.29.noarch.rpm
+# error: create archive failed on file /longbuildroot/BUILDROOT/nodeimage-wexlxc-f16-x86_64-2.1-2.2012.11.29.x86_64/var/www/html/boot/bootstrapfs-wexlxc-f16-x86_64.tar: cpio: Bad magic
+# which suggests that the -plain packaging is failing;
+# the fact that cpio has a known limitation to 2Gb could be the culprit here,
+# although it seemed from other that the rpm we use didn't have that limitation...
+# # rpm -q rpm
+# rpm-4.9.1.3-1.fc16.x86_64
+#
+# dropping this for now; one way out would be to stop building the plain package, not sure how bad it would be for tests
+########################################