From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628 Description of problem: Contrary to the documentation (man rpm or rpm --help), option --recompile creates binary rpm(s). How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm --recompile <sourcepkg.rpm> 2. watch-standard-output and check the RPMS/i386/ directory Actual Results: Option --recompile created binary rpm(s). Expected Results: Well, if the docs are to be believed, option --recompile should not have created any binary rpms. Option --rebuild does that and also the source rpm(s). Additional info: [This has come up on the Seawolf mailing-list where I mentioned that rpm --recompile would create binary rpms only, but no source rpms. Someone followed up that --recompile would not create any rpms at all. But since I've been using --recompile to create binary rpms for some time, I had to check the docs again and found this behaviour to be either a bug or inconsistency at least.]
I have no clue what you are talking about. The option --recompile creates *only* binary rpm's, but does *not* create another src.rpm. That's the way it's always worked.
That's the way I've used it for a long time. *But* the docs don't say that: See "man rpm", section REBUILD AND RECOMPILE OPTIONS: [...] In addition, --rebuild builds a new binary package. [...] Should either read "... a new source package..." or should be dropped, because --recompile builds a new binary package, too. Hence "no addition". And from rpm --help: --recompile <src_pkg> - like --rebuild, but don't build any package Wrong. It does build a package. Just not a source package. (Previous bug comment explains why this issue has come up.)
Hmmm, there appears only to be a doco problem here, not a functional problem. Since the build modes are now in a separate executable, and the man page will be reworked in rpm-4.1, I'm gonna mark this problem deferred.
Yes, it is a docu problem and most likely *the* reason why people everywhere use (and suggest) rpm --rebuild, although they want just binary rpms and could use rpm --recompile.
Here're two users who can reproduce this bug: https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/enigma-list/2001-December/005947.html https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/enigma-list/2001-December/005950.html
I'm not saying that there isn't a bug, only that I cannot reproduce. I need to reproduce this if you want me to fix: bash$ rpm --recompile /etc/inittab Installing /etc/inittab error: /etc/inittab cannot be installed bash$
Created attachment 41148 [details] patch suggestion
Sorry, the most recent comments belong to bug #57519. Will move them.