Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 53847
man page misleading
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:00 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010915 Description of problem: The man page is misleading, with respect to the --target option, and --rebuild/--recompile. It isn't entirely clear from the man page that the --target option applies to the --rebuild/--recompile commands. This is compounded by the fact that i.e., '--target i686' doesn't work; you need to have an '=', and say '--target=i686'. I realize for this seems minor, but what ends up happening for those using source rpms for the first time is this: 1) Want to build athlon rpm 2) Look at man page, it doesn't seem that --target works with --rebuild, but let's try 3) Try 'rpm --rebuild --target athlon foo.src.rpm' 4) Oh, doesn't work. I guess --target doesn't apply to --rebuild. 5) Redo using -i followed by -ba etc... When really, it should have been --target=athlon Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: man rpm Additional info:
This works for me in rpm-4.0.3-1.05. You do need to do "--target athlon", not "--target=athlon" if invoking from rpm due to limitations imposed by popt. Invoke as rpmbuild if you want it either way.