Bug 8527

Summary: rpm creates file named 'tar: *.spec: Not found in archive'
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Edward J. Huff <ejhuff>
Component: rpm-buildAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description Edward J. Huff 2000-01-17 09:31:21 UTC
The man page doesn't give any hints about what a SPEC file is
or where it might be found. I had to guess.  In doing that,
I discovered this feature:  rpm creates file named
'tar: *.spec: Not found in archive' instead of printing the
error to stderr.

[root@desk /root]# ls -al /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/
total 24
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         4096 Jan 16 01:13 .
drwxr-xr-x   7 root     root         4096 Jan  9 13:43 ..
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     root        13622 Dec 14 10:38 linuxconf.spec
[root@desk /root]# rpm -tc
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/linuxconf-1.16r10.src.tar.gz
Name field must be present in package: (main package)
Version field must be present in package: (main package)
Release field must be present in package: (main package)
Summary field must be present in package: (main package)
Group field must be present in package: (main package)
License field must be present in package: (main package)
[root@desk /root]# ls -al /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/
total 24
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         4096 Jan 16 01:14 .
drwxr-xr-x   7 root     root         4096 Jan  9 13:43 ..
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     root        13622 Dec 14 10:38 linuxconf.spec
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root            0 Jan 16 01:14 tar: *.spec: Not
found in archive
[root@desk /root]#

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-01-17 19:38:59 UTC
My favorite rpm wartlet, thanks for reporting :-)

Comment 2 Rodrigo Barbosa 2000-12-13 20:30:13 UTC
lah lah lah lah lah :-) Jeff has a patch ! :-) lah lah lah lah lah :-)

Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 2001-02-22 21:41:37 UTC
Changing component.

Comment 4 Jeff Johnson 2001-09-06 16:50:28 UTC
*** Bug 53322 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Jeff Johnson 2002-07-15 15:51:45 UTC
*** Bug 68857 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Jeff Johnson 2003-01-02 22:23:43 UTC
*** Bug 80975 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Gerald Teschl 2003-07-27 21:34:37 UTC
Still present in rpm-4.2-1.

Comment 8 Need Real Name 2004-09-09 12:59:29 UTC
Still present in rpm-4.3.1-0.3 (Fedora Core 2).

Comment 9 John Ellson 2005-02-22 16:00:50 UTC
Still present in rpm-build-4.4.1-2, more than 5 years after the original report!!!

I suggest increasing the priority on this in the hope that the developer will
take notice.


Comment 10 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-29 21:39:35 UTC
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of
response.

For RPM issues, please try a current release such as Fedora Core 4; if bugs
persist, please open a new issue.