Re: RPM command parameters parsing ( bug ? ... )

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:30:12PM -0500, Serguei Ostrovskii wrote:
> 
> Do you mean 'rpm' won't have -[b|t] options in the future
> and it is currently for compatibility only ?

The build modes of rpm moved from /bin/rpm to a /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb helper
binary over a year ago.

What's left is legacy compatibility provided by something called popt
aliases. The aliases are used to re-exec a helper binary if a mode
specific option is encountered. This mostly works, certainly well enough
for legacy compatibility IMHO, but there are problems with various
pathological invocations.

73 de Jeff

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