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Bug 750159

Summary:	rpm repackage option unavailable
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	manoharrao.b
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.1
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:	OS: RHEL6.1 rpm packahes: rpm-libs-4.8.0-17.el6.x86_64 rpm-build-4.8.0-17.el6.x86_64 rpm-4.8.0-17.el6.x86_64 rpm-python-4.8.0-17.el6.x86_64 Arch: x86_64
Last Closed:	2011-10-31 13:41:34 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
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Description manoharrao.b 2011-10-31 08:17:10 UTC

Description of problem:
rpm repackage option is not available.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# rpm -qa | grep rpm
rpm-libs-4.8.0-17.el6.x86_64
rpm-build-4.8.0-17.el6.x86_64
rpm-4.8.0-17.el6.x86_64
rpm-python-4.8.0-17.el6.x86_64


How reproducible:
Run the following command
# rpm --repackage
--repackage: unknown option


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login to RHEL61 machine
2. check the rpm version using rpm -qa | grep rpm
3. run the command
rpm --repackage
  
Actual results:
Option is not supported.

Expected results:
Option should be supported.

Additional info:
I have tried to identify whethere is there any update on repackage option in rhel61. but I did not find however I am still trying to find updates on this.

I have tried the same command in rhel5, it is working and option is available.

I am not sure where to port this query and also not sure that whether it is really a bug or not. Please consider my request and provide me a solution like if it is a bug, how to handle repackage option to avail rollback facility provided by rpm.

Thanks
Manohar

Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2011-10-31 13:41:34 UTC

--repackage / --rollback support was removed from rpm upstream between RHEL 5 and 6 because its essentially an unsupportable feature. Rpm's rollback was never actually officially supported on RHEL 5 either, RHN has its own rollback mechanism which is the recommended and supported method.