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

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Apr 9, 2007, at 2:46 PM, 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..

The answer is rather simple.

> 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.

There's only one build, so there's no way to
    "... prevent rpmbuild from building subpackages ..."

> Must the SPEC file be specially written?

Yep.

> This is on a FC4 machine if that's relevent and rpm 4.4.1.

OK.

> I'm getting ready to browse the source to answer this!

Good luck!

73 de Jeff