Re: %clean in rpm-4.4.7+

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On May 23, 2007, at 4:30 PM, Tim Mooney wrote:

> In regard to: Re: %clean in rpm-4.4.7+, Jeff Johnson said (at  
> 12:56pm on...:
>
> > On May 23, 2007, at 12:51 PM, Tomasz Koczko wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 21 May 2007, Tim Mooney wrote:
> > > > All-
> > > > With rpm 4.4.7 and later, rpm ignores the %clean in the spec  
> > > > file and
> > > > instead uses a set of macros to handle post-build cleanup of the  
> > > > build
> > > > system.  This was discussed on the rpm devel list and is  
> > > > documented in
> > > > the CHANGES, and the new functionality has been working fine.
> > > > What I'm after is configuring my personal/system build default  
> > > > so that
> > > > - the BuildRoot is NOT removed after a successful rpmbuild
> > > > - the Build subdirectory (%_topdir/BUILD/foo-1.0) IS removed after
> > > > a successful rpmbuild, but left on an unsuccessful build.
> > > In 4.4.2 this is performed by "rpmbuild --clean <spec>".
> > > If it still true in > 4.4.2 I dont see any reasons for changes.
> >
> > rpm-4.4.7 and later has refactored BuildRoot: and %clean out of  
> > spec files.
> >
> > Unfortunately there's no fix for legacy spec files except to parse
> > and ignore the contents. Yet.
>
> Understood.  I was just under the mistaken impression that
> %__spec_clean_body is what replaced %clean, so I thought I could
> control the replacement for %clean via that macro.  It's not, and
> I can't.

It was *supposed* to be what replaced %clean, but you identified a  
bug.  Not gotten
to repairing yet.

> I know where it is in the source now, if it bugs me enough I can hack
> something else in.

Nod. Hardwiring whatever will always work. The real fix is likely not  
hard either.

73 de Jeff