Bug 56005 – RFE: provide specfile(5) documentation

Bug 56005 - RFE: provide specfile(5) documentation

Summary:	RFE: provide specfile(5) documentation

Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm-build (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.2
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
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Reported:	2001-11-10 06:44 EST by Edward J. Huff
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2005-09-29 17:48:31 EDT
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Fix problem in man page -- where do spec files come from? (1.50 KB, patch) 2001-11-10 06:48 EST, Edward J. Huff	no flags	Details \| Diff
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Description Edward J. Huff 2001-11-10 06:44:49 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-7 i586)

Description of problem:
The man page should explain how to obtain the spec file
in order to unpack the sources without recompiling and 
installing the package.  Also 'rathen' should be 'rather'.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.0.3-1.03.src.rpm

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man rpm
2. /rathen
3. /spec *file
	

Additional info:

patchfile attached.

Comment 1 Edward J. Huff 2001-11-10 06:48:28 EST

Created attachment 37181 [details]
Fix problem in man page -- where do spec files come from?

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2001-11-20 11:28:32 EST

Thanks for the patch. However, since rpm build modes
are now resident in /usr/bin/rpmbuild, and documented
in rpmbuild(8), the patch should go there.

Furthermore, and more importantly, spec files really need
to be documented in specfile(5). So I'm gonna change this
into a RFE for specfile(5).

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-29 17:48:31 EDT

Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of
response.

For RPM issues, please try a current release such as Fedora Core 4; if bugs
persist, please open a new issue.

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