not finding rpmbuild

[Scott Berry]

Hi there guys,

Yeah the inconsistency for rpm-build is a little strange.  But I think it 
makes sense since it is not one of the packages that comes standard with 
rpm.  Thanks a bunch for the info now I can have fun in kernel land.  Grin!

Scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Parker" <andrewparker at bigfoot.com>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" 
<fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: not finding rpmbuild


> On 10/23/07, Jos Vos <jos at xos.nl> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 06:24:26PM -0400, Andrew Parker wrote:
>>
>> > > rpmbuild is not there.
>> >
>> > yum install rpm-build
>> >
>> > nice bit of inconsistency there
>>
>> What is inconsistent?  That the package is named different than one
>> of the executables in it?
>
> yes
>
>>  rpm-build is just a subpackage of rpm
>> and thus has a dash in it.  Most commands are not owned by a package
>> with the same name.
>
> oh indeed, i'm aware that there are good reasons why its different,
> and i am certainly not advocating changing it.  Its just that i'm sure
> that its not just Scott Berry and myself that stumbled or slapped
> their foreheads because of it.
>
>> Most commands are not owned by a package with the same name.
>
> True, but in those cases the package name is a collective name and/or
> there is a binary of the same name.  You have to admit that it is
> unusual to have the RPM package name to be the same as the binary with
> a hyphen added to it.  On my system, there are only two such packages
> (vnc-server being the other), so its not the norm:
>
> for P in $(rpm -qa --queryformat "%{name}\n" | grep [-]); do PD=$(echo
> $P | tr -d "-"); rpm -ql $P | grep /bin/$PD\$ > /dev/null && echo $P;
> done
>
>> You can also do "yum install /usr/bin/rpmbuild", if you like.
>
> You can, but it wasn't that long ago that rpmbuild was taken out of
> "rpm -b" and my first thought when I couldn't find it was "what is it
> called now?"
>
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