Bug 85024 – rpm --rebuild fails with useless error message if rpm-build is not installed

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Bug 85024 - rpm --rebuild fails with useless error message if rpm-build is not installed

Summary:	rpm --rebuild fails with useless error message if rpm-build is not installed

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	2.1
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
QA Contact:	Mike McLean
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Reported:	2003-02-24 17:17 EST by Lee Sheridan
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:06 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-02-24 18:14:21 EST
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Description Lee Sheridan 2003-02-24 17:17:06 EST

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Description of problem:
[root@machine root]# rpm --rebuild php-4.2.2-8.0.7.src.rpm
php-4.2.2-8.0.7.src.rpm: No such file or directory


Installing "rpm-build" fixes the problem, but the error message could be much
more useful if it complained about being able to find files from rpm-build or
told me to try installing that RPM.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install a system without rpm-build
2.Try to build a .src.rpm file using "rpm --rebuild testfile.src.rpm".  Note the
misleading error message.
3.Install the "rpm-build" package and try step 2 again, which will work.
    

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Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2003-02-24 18:14:21 EST

This already fixed in rpm-4.1 by putting rpm build
modes into a seperate /usr/bin/rpmbuild executable.

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