Bug 56187

Summary: rpm -ta generates file "tar: *.spec: Not found in archive"
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp>
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description Pekka Pietikäinen 2001-11-13 18:42:35 UTC 
Description of Problem:

When you try to rpm -ta foo.tar.gz, where foo.tar.gz doesn't contain a
.spec file,
a file named "tar: *.spec: Not found in archive" is created in the specfile
directory.

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

4.0.3-1.03

How Reproducible:

1. rpm -ta tarfilewithoutspecfile.tar.gz

Actual Results:

File gets created 

Expected Results:

Nothing is generated (and maybe a nice error message about it too)
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-11-15 23:44:12 UTC 
My favorite rpm bug. The fix -- when the time comes --
will be to eliminate tar build modes, as the whole mess
should have been implemented as a shell script a long
time ago. Meanwhile, what's there is there.