Re: Installing during rebuild

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:29:53AM -0700, Wyse, Chris wrote:

> Is there a way to prevent the rpmbuild of the source rpm from performing
> the installation?  My install section is executed during rpmbuild - I
> really only want the installation done when I install the binary rpm.
> Am I missing something or doing something wrong (or both)?

Both :-).

%instal is for installing in the temporary buildroot (BuildRoot: ...)
and the contents of that directory are used to collect the files for
the binary rpm (as listed in %files).

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