Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 60874
Need rpm macro for rename command
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:01 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011012 Description of problem: Spec files which use the rename command are dependent on /usr/bin/rename being first in the command search path. There should be an rpm macro for rename if it is used in spec files. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.cd; mkdir tmpbin; cp /bin/false tmpbin/rename 2.PATH=~/tmpbin:$PATH 3.rpm --rebuild openssl-0.9.6b-8.src.rpm Actual Results: ...SNIP... + mv /var/tmp/openssl-0.9.6b-root/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.6 /var/tmp/openssl-0.9.6b-root/usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.6 /var/tmp/openssl-0.9.6b-root/lib/ + mv /var/tmp/openssl-0.9.6b-root/usr/share/ssl/man/man1 /var/tmp/openssl-0.9.6b-root/usr/share/ssl/man/man3 /var/tmp/openssl-0.9.6b-root/usr/share/ssl/man/man5 /var/tmp/openssl-0.9.6b-root/usr/share/ssl/man/man7 /var/tmp/openssl-0.9.6b-root/usr/share/man + rmdir /var/tmp/openssl-0.9.6b-root/usr/share/ssl/man + rename so.0.9.6 so.0.9.6b /var/tmp/openssl-0.9.6b-root/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.6 /var/tmp/openssl-0.9.6b-root/lib/libssl.so.0.9.6 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.19983 (%install) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.19983 (%install) lion:~$ Expected Results: a normal package build Additional info: While rebuilding openssl-0.9.6b-8.src.rpm, I discovered that the openssl spec file uses the rename command. I happened to have a different rename command in my path ahead of /usr/bin/rename. Because of this, the build failed. Unlike cp, mv, rm, and friends, there is no macro for the rename command, so /usr/bin must be in PATH, and /usr/bin/rename must be ahead of any other rename executables. I assuming that the addition of a macro for the rename command would fix this.
There's nothing stopping you from using a rename macro if you choose. There's no way that rpm can auto-detect a default path to rename, particularly when there are several candidates. Fix your %install script to do the Right Thing.
I should have said that this source rpm is straight from the 7.2 distribution. bash$ rpm -qip openssl-0.9.6b-8.src.rpm Name : openssl Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.9.6b Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 8 Build Date: Fri 07 Sep 2001 04:48:38 PM PDT Install date: (not installed) Build Host: stripples.devel.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Libraries Source RPM: (none) Size : 2091899 License: BSDish Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> URL : http://www.openssl.org/ Summary : The OpenSSL toolkit. Description : The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and protocols. The spec file of this rpm uses rename without a complete path. If rename is used in many other Redhat spec files, a standard macro with the complete path is in order. If not, I should submit a bug against the openssl package. What is your preference? galen