Bug 11547 - rpm --help or man page doesn't mention '--define'
Summary: rpm --help or man page doesn't mention '--define'
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 1.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jeff Johnson
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Reported: 2000-05-21 09:04 UTC by Pekka Savola
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-05-22 14:03:07 UTC
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Description Pekka Savola 2000-05-21 09:04:52 UTC
New kerberos detection in pine spec file doesn't seem to work for me.

Granted, my RPM is from RH62, but I saw no notion of this in rpm-3.1.

I have *no* kerberos packages, and 'rpm -ba pine.spec' just blurts
out it wants krb5-devel.

Spec file line:
%{!?nokerberos:BuildPrereq: krb5-devel}

looked a bit peculiar, considering nokerberos check hasn't been defined
anywhere in the spec file.

Or is there something I'm missing here?

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2000-05-22 13:37:59 UTC
Use "--define nokerberos=1" as a flag to rpm when rebuilding the spec file

Comment 2 Pekka Savola 2000-05-22 13:43:59 UTC
rpm manpage or 'rpm --help' doesn't mention --define parameter at all.

Comment 3 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2000-05-22 14:03:59 UTC
You can find some information on it in /usr/doc/rpm-3.0.4

Comment 4 Jeff Johnson 2000-07-10 19:25:47 UTC
Here's what  rpm-4.0 rpm --help sez':

...
   All modes support the following arguments:
    --define '<name> <body>' - define macro <name> with value <body>
    --eval '<name>+'       - print the expansion of macro <name> to stdout
...




Comment 5 Pekka Savola 2000-07-10 19:57:43 UTC
Hmm, am I mistaken, or should that be

--define '<name>=<body>' ?  (as in --define 'nokerberos=1').

RPM 4.0 tarball man page didn't contain this (yet).  May I suggest that a short
example like that nokerberos will be added there so that the actual use will be
comprehensible?




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