Bug 169587

Summary:	rpm writes error messages to the name of a file in SPECS, instead of stderr
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	John Ellson <john.ellson>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Paul Nasrat <nobody+pnasrat>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description John Ellson 2005-09-29 22:18:42 UTC

Description of problem:
Previously reported as Bug#8527 in January 2001.  Now closed because
that version of rpm is "older, no longer supported" ??
Problem still exists in latest version.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.4.2-5

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.rpmbuild -ta xxx     (where xxx does not exists)
2.ls SPECS/tar*
3.
  
Actual results:
tar: *.spec: Not found in archive

Expected results:
Error messages to stderr.
No junk files in SPECS/

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2005-10-05 22:24:43 UTC

Yep. I keep this bug around to vet my rpm hackers. You have just joined
an elite membership of perhaps 10 or so hackers who have reported.

There is an intractable chicken <-> egg problem that cannot be easily
solved to fix, so the eventual fix will be to remove -ta modes from rpmbuild.

Meanwhile, I keep the bug around ...