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 -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow) - Linux kernel 2.6.3-2.1.242 Load : 0.22 0.24 0.24
