Bug 293531 - rpm-build --help output typos
Summary: rpm-build --help output typos
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: popt
Version: 15
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Robert Scheck
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
: 699278 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 448286
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-09-17 17:44 UTC by Sigh
Modified: 2012-08-07 20:23 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 20:23:56 UTC
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Description Sigh 2007-09-17 17:44:44 UTC
Description of problem:
The output of 'rpm-build --help' lists the with/without options as
--with=<option>
--without=<option>

In practice, the '=' causes the options to be unrecognized.  They must
(apparently) be separated by whitespace, not an equals sign.  This probably
doesn't affect experienced users at all, but beginning sysadmins will stumble
over it.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.0.21-12.fc7

Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2007-09-25 09:44:14 UTC
An ages old issue AFAIR. They're not "typos" as such, the help message is
automatically generated by popt from the application data and aliases. The
problem is that while "real" popt options can handle the --opt=<arg> syntax, it
doesn't work for aliases (either it never did or has broken at some point) but
the same help message is generated for both types of options.

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Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 2008-05-16 12:10:24 UTC
FYI both --foo=bar and --foo bar when foo is an alias are handled equivalently in popt-1.14.

Comment 4 Panu Matilainen 2008-05-20 11:45:20 UTC
Thanks for the info Jeff.

So it'll be fixed when popt is updated to 1.14 - moving to rawhide as this is
hardly going to be fixed in F7, and reassigning to popt. 

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 01:59:31 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2010-03-15 11:55:34 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 13 development cycle.
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Comment 8 Panu Matilainen 2011-05-24 12:18:52 UTC
*** Bug 699278 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Comment 10 Panu Matilainen 2011-06-14 09:20:39 UTC
Since we're stuck with popt-1.13 for now (see bug 448286), I took the liberty of backporting the upstream fix for this particular issue. It's in rawhide now as of popt-1.13-9, if it doesn't appear to break anything there we can push update for F15 (and F14 too)

Comment 11 Ville Skyttä 2011-11-13 22:36:57 UTC
1.13-9 is now in F-16 and --with=foo appears to work fine, maybe this bug can be closed now?

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