Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 151066
Reported non-increment of sourcepkgid by --rebuild
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:01 EST
Per channel maintenance request - mandrake reporter: 10:07 Nanar> jbj: rpmbuild --rebuild does not set this tag, for what I saw 10:09 jbj> which tag. %{arch} or %{cookie}? yah, %{cookie} used to trace back to original distro src.rpm, carried forward sneakily with --rebuild. from memory, %{cookie} has always been bizarre, do not rely on any behavior. 10:09 Nanar> %SUORCEPKGID 10:10 jbj> sourcepkgid not set with --rebuild is a bug (if true). bugzilla please. 10:10 Nanar> jbj: was on rpm 4.2, will check on 4.4 10:10 Nanar> so 10:10 jbj> sourcepkgid is in *.rpm, not *.src.rpm however. 10:11 Nanar> sure :) 10:11 jbj> it matches the header+payload md5 of the *.src.rpm.
Confirmed, --rebuild does not set RPMTAG_SOURCEPKGID.
And the reason is (drum roll please ;-) because no *.src.rpm is produced by --rebuild! It's not really clear whether the original sourcpkgid should be carried forward imho, as there are still *.src.rpm packages that do not contain RPMTAG_SOURCEPKGID around, so retrofitting a calculation of the src.rpm pkid would be needed as well to guarantee sourcepkid exists in all cases.
closed per the fedora marching orders > Now that Fedora legacy has dropped 3 and 4, it seems time to close the > old bug reports regarding FC 3 and FC 4. > > We invite all maintainers to have a look at open tickets for those old > releases and take appropriate actions as they see fit: move to newer > releases or close down. seems a waste, but there you go