rpmbuild -t? tarball options

[Schwarz, Konrad]

Hello,

I am having no success in getting the rpmbuild -t? tarball options to work, at least for rpmbuild -version == 4.2.

As documented in the man page, rpmbuild -t? tarball is similar to rpmbuild -b? pkg.spec, except that the spec file is supposed to be in the tar file tarball.  I place pkg.spec at the top level within tarball.

Tracing rpmbuild with strace shows e.g. the following line

rename("/tmp/RACE-topdir/SPECS/rpm-spec.qG1peR", "/tmp/RACE-topdir/SPECS/tar: Pattern matching characters used in file names") = 0

which suspiciously looks like rpmbuild is tripping over the output of tar.

At the end of the run, I get the usual error messages as recorded in https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/ch11s02s02.html .  Despite the title The expected archive structure, it looks like the authors of that publication didn't ever get the -t? options to work either, as they show only the errors and not the expected archive structure.

Is there any way to get the -t? options to work?  And with Version 4.2?

Konrad

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