Re: Adding a build history to an RPM

[bob proulx com (Bob Proulx)]

Gavin Stark - RDM wrote:
> When building an rpm from a source rpm I'd like to be able to capture  
> the configure, make, install, and rpm specific output history.  Any  
> process (adding a file, etc.) would be acceptable as long as the  
> output can be retrieved later.   I am using rpm to package some  
> software and often want to be able to keep the build history.  I know  
> I can keep the output as a separate file but I figured that since the  
> rpm makes a nice package it would be handy to have this in there as  
> well.

What you are asking for is a little unusual.  Typically the build
would not be stored with the resulting binary.  But if you really
wanted to you could save the output of the %prep, %build, %install
scripts into a file in the build root and then package it up the same
as any other generated file.  But it just does not seem like a good
thing to me so I would recomment against it.

Hints:

%prep
{
%setup -q
} 2>&1 | tee -a build.log
%build
{
%configure
make
} 2>&1 | tee -a build.log
%install
{
%makeinstall
} 2>&1 | tee -a build.log

%files
%doc build.log

Bob