Description of Problem: with the 7.1 product, you cannot build the fileutils SRPM without having libtermcap-devel installed. But, if "rpm -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/fileutils*spec" is executed, you do NOT get an error from rpm about missing/unsatisfied build dependencies. If you install the libtermcap-devel rpm, the fileutils SRPM builds without problems. How Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -e libtermcap-devel 2. rpm -Uvh <tree-path>/SRPMS/fileutils*.src.rpm 3. rpm -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/fileutils*spec 4. rpm -Uvh <tree-path>/RedHat/RPMS/libtermcap-devel* 5. rpm -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/fileutils*spec Actual Results: first 3 steps result in a failure WITHOUT a build-requires error from rpm next 2 steps build the SRPM without fail Expected Results: I would expect an rpm error message to be written to stderr informing me the fileutils SRPM cannot be built without installing the libtermcap-devel RPM.
fileutils compiles if either libtermcap-devel or ncurses-devel is installed. Since they don't provide anything common, and there's no "BuildRequires: libtermcap-devel || ncurses-devel" tag, I'm not 100% sure that this is the right thing to do. I'm adding it, though - after all, if fileutils is compiled without libtermcap-devel, it'll be linked against ncurses, which is not what we're doing in the official packages.