Re: How to prevent rpmbuild from building %package subpackages?

[Michael Jennings <mej kainx org>]

On Monday, 09 April 2007, at 14:46:52 (-0400),
Richard Michael wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I guess this is a really obvious question, but I'm stumped and I haven't
> been able to dig up an answer for this..
> 
> How can I prevent rpmbuild from building subpackages?  I want to build a
> php SRPM, but without many of the component packages.  I've tried
> --without-<SUBNAME>, --define "<SUBNAME> 0", etc. etc. 
> 
> Must the SPEC file be specially written?
> 
> This is on a FC4 machine if that's relevent and rpm 4.4.1.
> 
> I'm getting ready to browse the source to answer this!

Check out this spec file:
http://mirror.caosity.org/cAos-2/ext/autobuilder/i386/00_LOGS/web/php5/SPECS/php5.spec
and its SRPM:
http://mirror.caosity.org/cAos-2/ext/autobuilder/i386/00_LOGS/web/php5/SRPMS/php5-5.2.1-1.caos.src.rpm

I've built it on systems as far back as RHEL3.

Michael

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