Re: Source RPM displayed in rpm -qi

[Dag Wieers <dag wieers com>]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Bharavi Oak wrote:

> I am using RPM 4.0.3.
> "rpm -qi packagename" always displays Source RPM:
> packagename-version-release.src.rpm
>
> I am building a binary rpm using rpmbuild -bb x.spec. Thus src rpm is not
> created; but still rpm -qi shows Source RPM with default name. Even I tried
> giving a tag Source RPM: none in my spec file. But still rpm -qi shows
> default src rpm name.
> I want to know how to make Source RPM information display correctly.

This is indeed a problem. I think the source-rpm field is deprecated (and 
only useful to find packages that come from the same build).

It is very strange that this field cannot be set and holds a filename 
(instead of just N-E:V-R).

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