Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 78730
rpm --rebuild: unknown option
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: when try to rebuild drivers or whatever, rpm --rebuild does not work, said unknown option Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.rpm --rebuild something-version-src.rpm 2. 3. Additional info:
If you quickly peruse the man pages, you'll notice that if you search for "--rebuild" - you'll only find the reference "LEGACY ISSUES". You should be invoking "rpmbuild" instead of "rpm" - Pulled directly from the man page: LEGACY ISSUES Executing rpmbuild The build modes of rpm are now resident in the /usr/bin/rpmbuild exe- cutable. Although legacy compatibility provided by the popt aliases below has been adequate, the compatibility is not perfect; hence build mode compatibility through popt aliases is being removed from rpm. Install the rpmbuild package, and see rpmbuild(8) for documentation of all the rpm build modes previously documented here in rpm(8). Add the following lines to /etc/popt if you wish to continue invoking rpmbuild from the rpm command line: rpm exec --bp rpmb -bp rpm exec --bc rpmb -bc rpm exec --bi rpmb -bi rpm exec --bl rpmb -bl rpm exec --ba rpmb -ba rpm exec --bb rpmb -bb rpm exec --bs rpmb -bs rpm exec --tp rpmb -tp rpm exec --tc rpmb -tc rpm exec --ti rpmb -ti rpm exec --tl rpmb -tl rpm exec --ta rpmb -ta rpm exec --tb rpmb -tb rpm exec --ts rpmb -ts rpm exec --rebuild rpmb --rebuild rpm exec --recompile rpmb --recompile rpm exec --clean rpmb --clean rpm exec --rmsource rpmb --rmsource rpm exec --rmspec rpmb --rmspec rpm exec --target rpmb --target rpm exec --short-circuit rpmb --short-circuit This is NOTABUG.