Bug 2089020

Summary:	rpmbuild can't parse %elif, %elifarch, %elifos on RHEL 8.6
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Istiak Ferdous <hello>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	swm-qe
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Version:	8.6	CC:	germano.massullo, germano.massullo, pmatilai
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Description Istiak Ferdous 2022-05-22 14:01:27 UTC

Description of problem:
Currently rpmbuild can't parse %elif, %elifarch, %elifos on RHEL 8.6.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RPM version 4.14.3

How reproducible:
100% reproducible

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a spec file with %elif, %elifarch, %elifos
2.Try to build SRPMS rpmbuild -bs ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/package.spec

Actual results:
error: line 15: Unknown tag: %elif


Expected results:
Parse %elif, %elifarch, %elifos


Additional info:
Is it possible to backport this patch:

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/1c4b238840d0995344d0d0381a0561b213429203

Or upgrade RPM to minimum rpm-4.15.0-release ?

Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2022-05-23 06:46:12 UTC

This has been requested before. The above patch is not free-standing but depends on a pile of changes that together were considered too invasive and thus risky for backporting.

Within a distro release, rpm is only ever rebased to different newer micro releases of the same major.minor branch, updates like 4.14 -> 4.15 are out of the question entirely because those are effectively major versions when it comes to rpm.