RPM hacking.

[Sam Varshavchik]

Mike A. Harris writes:

> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> 
>>I have a dim recollection of an undocumented option to rpm (now rpmbuild) 
>>that's essentially equivalent to "-bb --short-circuit".  That is, it jumps 
>>directly to binary RPM files creation; the installation buildroot is already 
>>assumed to exist and populated according to whatever's in %files.
>>
>>Anyone remember what it is?
> 
> Unless this has changed since times past, there is no such 
> option.  If I recall correctly, rpm very intentionally does not 
> allow you to skip over all stages and jump directly to the file 
> packaging stage which then writes out the final binary packages.

Yeah and all that.  This is a debugging/hacking option only.

I managed to drudge my memory cell and remember the undocumented -bs option, 
which creates just the .src.rpm.  Now, I need to remember the rest of the 
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