Bug 699278

Summary: Incorrect long option syntax in --help output
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta>
Component: rpmAssignee: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
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Description Ville Skyttä 2011-04-24 21:01:47 UTC 
rpm --help contains long option entries like:

  -e, --erase=<package>+           erase (uninstall) package
  -F, --freshen=<packagefile>+     upgrade package(s) if already installed
  -U, --upgrade=<packagefile>+     upgrade package(s)

...but the long option syntax does not actually work when invoked like the above, they need to be given like "--erase foo" or "--upgrade foo" instead, i.e. the "=" needs to be replaced by whitespace.  For some options the "=" appears to work (for example --rcfile=foo) but not for any of the above.

No idea if this is an upstream rpm or popt issue, so reporting it here.
Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2011-05-24 12:18:52 UTC 
It's an popt-issue indeed (and old one at that IIRC), supposedly fixed in popt >= 1.14 but there hasn't been a whole lot of activity in updating Fedora's popt to a more recent version... (see bug 448286)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 293531 ***