Bug 62597 – RPM confusing error message

Bug 62597 - RPM confusing error message

Summary:	RPM confusing error message

Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm (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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Duplicates:	62634 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2002-04-02 17:32 EST by Ben Woodard
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-04-02 17:32:18 EST
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Description Ben Woodard 2002-04-02 17:32:14 EST

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Description of problem:
This bug may be similar to Bug 20286 which in turn is similar to 2895. However,
this one is much more specific and therefore may have a chance of being fixed. ;-)

If you do not have the rpm-build package installed and try to build a package
you get a confusing error message. For example:

[root@test1 SPECS]# rpm -bp kernel-2.4.spec
kernel-2.4.spec: No such file or directory

when the file kernel-2.4.spec is right there. Strace allows you to realize that
the error message is coming from the fact that rpmb is not being exec'd properly.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.rpm -e rpm-build
2.rpm -Uvh anything.src.rpm
3.rpm -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/anything.spec
	

Actual Results:  anything.spec: No such file or directory


Expected Results:  rpmb: No such file or directory
Please install the rpm-build rpm.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-04-03 16:56:11 EST

The build modes are now in /usr/bin/rpmbuild,
not in /bin/rpm, so the error should be
	-ba: unknown option
or (if rpm-build is not installed)
	bash: rpmbuild: command not found

Legacy code dies a long slow lingering death ...

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2002-04-03 17:02:46 EST

*** Bug 62634 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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