Bug 89152 – brp-compress needs user interaction

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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

Priority	low Severity low
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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
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Reported:	2003-04-18 10:43 EDT by Han-Wen Nienhuys
Modified:	2005-10-31 17:00 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-04-21 12:04:40 EDT
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Description Han-Wen Nienhuys 2003-04-18 10:43:03 EDT

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 12:04:40 EDT

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 16:12:01 EDT

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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