[TriLUG] SRPMs on RHL 8.0

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 14:22, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> Actually, rpmbuild --rebuild should work on any distribution using rpm
> 4.0 or greater.  The build modes of rpm were split out into a separate
> binary in rpm 4.0 and the legacy rpm --rebuild behavior was preserved
> via popt aliases.  These aliases have been removed as of rpm 4.1.

Jeremy,

What was the reasoning behind this?  I understand breaking it out
into a separate executable, but why remove the alias?  What harm
does it do?

Thanks,
Tanner
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