rpmbuild and custom patch

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 09:23 +0300, Omer Faruk Sen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to build a customized version of a source rpm. I have my own patches
> 
> I do
> # rpmbuild -bp --target i686 *.spec
> 
> patch BUILD/PACKAGE and after that when I do  rpmbuild -bc --target i686
> it deletes my patched BUILD/Package directory and starts from scratch. How
> can I just %build and after that how can I just %install? Since -bc and
> -bi also applies -bp (%prep) and deletes my patched source rpm?

Add and apply your patches in the spec so that they will be applied when
%prep is done.

Paul.