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Bug 53553

Summary:	rpm gives no helpful output when attempting to build without rpm-build
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Paul Warren <pdw>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description Paul Warren 2001-09-11 16:05:43 UTC

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Description of problem:
When attempting to build source packages with rpm, rpm simply returns a
usage message if rpm-build is not installed.  There is no error message.

This is poor because the rpm manpage documents the --rebuild options etc.
but makes no reference to the need for rpm-build.



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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm --rebuild any-source-package.src.rpm
	

Actual Results:  rpm returns its standard usage message.

Expected Results:  An error message e.g. --rebuild option not available
because...

Additional info:

$ rpm -q rpm
rpm-4.0.2-6x

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-09-11 16:46:15 UTC

rpm build modes moved to a separate executable, contained
in the rpm-build package, over a year ago.

What's left is legacy. Because of limitations in the
popt exec command, there's no easy and/or obvious way
to get anything other than a usage message if the
rpm-build package is not installed. IMHO, this is as
it should be, because the build modes have moved to
a separate executable, with it's own man page (yes,
the build modes need to be removed from rpm.8), it's own
help message, etc. Expecting the old binary to document
legacy options that are not present is unreasonable.