Bug 89639

Summary: Conflicting --define and --rcfile cmdline evaluation
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide Reporter: Enrico Scholz <rh-bugzilla>
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Enrico Scholz 2003-04-25 13:30:34 UTC
Description of problem:

The '--rcfile' cmdline option is ignored when there is a previous '--define'.


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

rpm-4.2-0.69


How reproducible:

100%


Steps to Reproduce:
0. rm -f a
1. rpm --define='foo bar' --rcfile=a
2. rpm --rcfile=a --define='foo bar'

    
Actual results:

no message at 1.

'error: Unable to open a for reading: No such file or directory.' at 2.


Expected results:

errormessages at 1 also

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2003-04-25 13:35:18 UTC
Yup, adding --define triggers rcfile reading, --rcfile
not yet processed, when processed it's too late to matter.

Put --rcfile first.