If src and binary rpm files are built (via "rpm -ba") with some build options explicitly turned on, the src rpm subsequently reports these options as "on" (via "rpm -qpi" or "rpm -qp --provides") even though the spec file has them defaulted to "off".
Case in point: I started with perl-dbi-20040108-20040108.src.rpm as my base package. "rpm -qip --provides" reports all options turned off: > rpm -qip --provides perl-dbi-20040108-20040108.src.rpm Name : perl-dbi Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 20040108 Vendor: Perl Community Release : 20040108 Build Date: Thu Jan 8 15:09:03 2004 Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: dv1.dev.de.cw.net Group : Language Source RPM: (none) Size : 1295730 License: GPL/Artistic Signature : (none) Packager : The OpenPKG Project URL : http://www.cpan.org/ Summary : Perl Modules for use with DBI API Description : Various modules for using the DBI API of Perl: - DBI (1.40) - SQL::Statement (1.005) - DBD::AnyData (0.06) - DBD::Sprite (0.47) - DBD::SQLite (0.29) - DBD::mysql (2.9003) [no] - DBD::Pg (1.31) [no] - DBD::Oracle (1.14) [no] - DBD::ODBC (1.06) [no] perl-dbi::with_dbd_mysql = no perl-dbi::with_dbd_pg = no perl-dbi::with_dbd_oracle = no perl-dbi::with_dbd_odbc = no I then "installed" the source package, made some changes to the spec file (though not to the option defaults), and rebuilt it with the following command: rpm -ba perl-dbi.spec --define "with_dbd_oracle yes" --define "with_dbd_odbc yes" Now executing "rpm -qip --provides" on the resulting src rpm yields the following: > rpm -qip --provides perl-dbi-20040114-20040114.src.rpm Name : perl-dbi Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 20040114 Vendor: Perl Community Release : 20040114 Build Date: Wed Jan 14 15:55:36 2004 Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: geraldine.Princeton.EDU Group : Language Source RPM: (none) Size : 1295757 License: GPL/Artistic Signature : (none) Packager : The OpenPKG Project URL : http://www.cpan.org/ Summary : Perl Modules for use with DBI API Description : Various modules for using the DBI API of Perl: - DBI (1.40) - SQL::Statement (1.005) - DBD::AnyData (0.06) - DBD::Sprite (0.47) - DBD::SQLite (0.29) - DBD::mysql (2.9003) [no] - DBD::Pg (1.31) [no] - DBD::Oracle (1.14) [yes] - DBD::ODBC (1.06) [yes] perl-dbi::with_dbd_mysql = no perl-dbi::with_dbd_pg = no perl-dbi::with_dbd_oracle = yes perl-dbi::with_dbd_odbc = yes There are also a few packages on the openpkg ftp site that show this problem: openpkg-import-20031027-20031027.src.rpm perl-dbi-20031129-20031129.src.rpm (now obsolete) I think that the src rpm should only report the spec file option defaults, and not the set of options that the binary rpm was built with. Dennis Dennis McRitchie Research & Academic Applications Support (RAAS) Academic Services Department Office of Information Technology Princeton University ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
