Sam Varshavchik wrote :
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
story___
Well, it's in both "--help" output and the rpmbuild man page, which is
pretty good exposure for an "undocumented option" ;-p
Matthias
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