RPM hacking.
Matthias Saou
thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net
Wed Mar 17 12:44:35 UTC 2004
Sam Varshavchik wrote :
> Mike A. Harris writes:
>
> > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> >
> >>I have a dim recollection of an undocumented option to rpm (now rpmbuild)
> >>that's essentially equivalent to "-bb --short-circuit". That is, it jumps
> >>directly to binary RPM files creation; the installation buildroot is already
> >>assumed to exist and populated according to whatever's in %files.
> >>
> >>Anyone remember what it is?
> >
> > Unless this has changed since times past, there is no such
> > option. If I recall correctly, rpm very intentionally does not
> > allow you to skip over all stages and jump directly to the file
> > packaging stage which then writes out the final binary packages.
>
> Yeah and all that. This is a debugging/hacking option only.
>
> I managed to drudge my memory cell and remember the undocumented -bs option,
> which creates just the .src.rpm. Now, I need to remember the rest of the
> story___
Well, it's in both "--help" output and the rpmbuild man page, which is
pretty good exposure for an "undocumented option" ;-p
Matthias
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