Bug 89152 - brp-compress needs user interaction
Summary: brp-compress needs user interaction
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm-build (Show other bugs)
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Version: 9
Hardware: All Linux
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Assignee: Jeff Johnson
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Reported: 2003-04-18 14:43 UTC by Han-Wen Nienhuys
Modified: 2005-10-31 22:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-04-21 16:04:40 UTC
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Description Han-Wen Nienhuys 2003-04-18 14:43:03 UTC 
Description of problem:

brp-compress runs gunzip without -f ; in some cases, this causes rpmbuild to hang,
waiting for the user eg.

gunzip: ./usr/share/info/R-intro.info already exists; do you wish to overwrite
(y or n)? y



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

4.2-0.69
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2003-04-21 16:04:40 UTC 
Yup, but there's no easy and reliable fix here except
to remove precompressed manpages in the %install scriptlet,
there's too many versions of brp-compress already released.
Comment 2 Han-Wen Nienhuys 2003-04-21 20:12:01 UTC 
I'm not suggesting that there is a real fix, but I merely that it should fail 
with some error message, in stead of user interaction -- if user interaction is
acceptable, then -f is, too, and for a batch program like rpmbuild, -f is more
appropriate than a prompt.
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