On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Jeff Johnson <n3npq@mac.com> wrote:

>
> On Nov 26, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Matthew Dawkins wrote:
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>
>>
>> Ohh sorry, I thought that was clear. I would prefer to not have it show
>> the errors. The query is handy to list what packages are to be built from a
>> specfile, but I not sure that was it's original intention.
>>
>>
> Thanks.
>
>
>  If it is, then the other strange behavior would be that it lists the rpm
>> for Name: even if the orignal Name may not have a %files list to be built.
>>
>
> RPM has lots of quirks, basically because the code has been tortured beyond
> belief.
>
> The fundamental design problem is that the spec file parser is not
> side-effect free. In this case there are error messages, there's all
> the whining about adding --nodeps with -bs, and your other request
> is basically RPM is supposed to know what happens with a build
> before the build completes.
>
> I'll rearrange the build state machine next week to remove the
> parsing side effects.
>
> Prepare for a new set of complaints. There's no pleasing anybody imho.
>
>
> 73 de Jeff
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Thanks Jeff and no there's not. You are damned if you do and damned if you
don't
Hehe.
Happy Turkey Day :-)