> I did this once upon a time, and did get it to work, but > seem to remember I had to twiddle with files in my home > directory (.rpmmacros etc). Looking at rpm.c now, I see > that the --macros flag can be used to specify a directory > to read those from, so maybe dotfiles aren't really an issue. I do it without tweaking any macros or macrofiles... > Another annoyance was that the resulting packages installed > much more slowly than a simple tar -xz. In fact, the install > time was in the tens of minutes, way beyond the pain threshold > of my users. Thus I would like to minimize the number of copies > made of the data during the install, if possible. Would > it be faster to list each file individually (possible, since > I'm generating the spec file from a script)? That might get > rid of one copy of the data... The extraction probably is not the process that takes most time. I suspect the checking and processing of the rpm db... _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
