Re: continuing disrupted builds

["Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky telemetry-investments com>]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:28:33AM +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
> The "--short-circuit" isn't distro specific, it's an rpmbuild option. You
> can simply use "rpmbuild -bi --short-circuit" to check that the
> installation can complete cleanly, you haven't missed any files etc. but in
> order to get the packages created, you'll need to start all over. I
> personally like this "sanity check" that makes that people aren't tempted
> to go tweak the sources sometime during the build, which would render the
> resulting source rpm pretty much useless for everyone else ;-)

Yes, but it would be nice to first produce test packages.

Last fall I spent a non-trivial amount of time backporting the RH8
OpenOffice packages to RH7.3.  Without the one-line rpm rebuild patch
from Mandrake, I'd still be at it ...

Sharp tools are nothing new, whether one is a developer or a machinist.
If I wanted the child-proof version, I'd code in Pascal.

Regards,

   Bill Rugolsky