Bug 53322

Summary:	"rpm -ta" on tarball without .spec litters filesystem
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Ed Marshall <esm>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description Ed Marshall 2001-09-06 16:10:36 UTC

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Description of problem:
If you perform an "rpm -ta <package>.tar.gz" on a tarball that doesn't
contain a spec file, you'll end up with a file name "tar: *.spec: Not found
in archive" in  %_topdir/SPECS.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/abiword-0.9.3.tar.gz
2. rpm -ta abiword-0.9.3.tar.gz
3. ls /usr/src/redhat/SPECS ;-)

Additional info:

Just a cosmetic annoyance, really, but should probably be fixed.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-09-06 16:50:32 UTC

Yup, my favorite rpm bug. I use it to qualify rpm hackers :-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8527 ***