Bug 53322 - "rpm -ta" on tarball without .spec litters filesystem
Summary: "rpm -ta" on tarball without .spec litters filesystem
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 8527
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: roswell
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Johnson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-09-06 16:10 UTC by Ed Marshall
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-09-06 16:10:41 UTC
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Description Ed Marshall 2001-09-06 16:10:36 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010803

Description of problem:
If you perform an "rpm -ta <package>.tar.gz" on a tarball that doesn't
contain a spec file, you'll end up with a file name "tar: *.spec: Not found
in archive" in  %_topdir/SPECS.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/abiword-0.9.3.tar.gz
2. rpm -ta abiword-0.9.3.tar.gz
3. ls /usr/src/redhat/SPECS ;-)

Additional info:

Just a cosmetic annoyance, really, but should probably be fixed.
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-09-06 16:50:32 UTC 
Yup, my favorite rpm bug. I use it to qualify rpm hackers :-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8527 ***
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