Bug 26902

Summary:	rpm-4.0-6x seems completely busted
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	henry
Component:	rpm-build	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	high
Version:	6.0	CC:	katzj
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Description henry 2001-02-10 01:18:15 UTC

I upgraded from the version of RPM that came on Red Hat 6.0 (rpm-3.0 I
believe) to rpm-4.0-6x and rpm-devel-4.0-6x so that I could install some
things that came in the new format RPMs.  This worked fine, including the
--rebuilddb and the install of the new RPMs, but the resulting rpm
command seems incapable of building RPMs from source.
I.e.,
	rpm -bp spec-file
fails with a general usage message for rpm.  Thus I can now not do
ANYTHING with my source RPMs.  By comparison, the rpm-4.0-4 installed
under Red Hat 7.0 works fine (although I don't want to try and install
it on my 6.0 machine because it needs Python 1.5.2 which I can't switch
to yet).
PLEASE: come out with a version of rpm-4 that works under Red Hat 6.x.
I'm getting desparate.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2001-02-10 08:09:54 UTC

Did you install the rpm-build package?  This is necessary in order to be able to
build packages with rpm 4.0.x

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2001-02-10 13:11:48 UTC

What he said :-)

Yes, all the build modes in rpm-4.0 are in a separate executable called
/usr/bin/rpmbuild contained in the rpm-build package.

Comment 3 henry 2001-02-10 17:39:41 UTC

I have not seen any rpm-build which is part of the rpm-4.0-6x family.
Note, with the older rpm that came with Red Hat 6.0, everything was in
rpm and rpm-devel.  If this exists, could you please tell me where it
is?
I don't think that another rpm is going to help.  Observe the behavior
or rpm that came in rpm-4.0-6x: if you run
	rpm -bp xxx
it complains with a generic usage message as if it didn't understand the
-bp option.  If you do this with a working rpm then it will complain
that xxx doesn't exist.  It looks to me like the command line argument
processing is busted.
Am I being fooled?

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2001-02-10 17:44:42 UTC

ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x/rpm-build-4.0-6x.i386.rpm perhaps?

Comment 5 henry 2001-02-11 02:08:05 UTC

Ah, that fixed it.  rpm-build didn't exist on Red Hat 6.0, only
rpm and rpm-devel.
Note, with only rpm-4.0-6x and rpm-devel-4.0-6x, I got only a
usage message as if it didn't understand the -bp argument.
In general I like RPMs, including making my own, but the error
messages when things go wrong are not so great.
Any way, thanks again.