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