Thanks for the advice - that's an angle I hadn't considered. Should work just fine.
From: Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@xxxxxxxx>
To: General discussion about the RPM package manager <rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011 10:56:40 AM
Subject: Re: Bypassing source checks in rpmbuild -bc
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Maule Mark wrote:
> We are using a hybrid development process in our company where we take an
> srpm, run it through rpmbuild -bp and then check the prepped source (ie.
> BUILD/<pkg>) and spec file into our source control system. We then do
> development against the expanded source and will periodically use our source
> control system to generate a patch from accumulated changes and regenerate
> the srpm.
>
> We throw away the SOURCES directory after expanding to save checking in some
> duplication.
>
> To compile things for testing/develoopment, we then want to just be able to
> use rpmbuild -bc -short-circuit ...
We use a makefile to generate the SOURCES from cvs. You can do something
similar:
cvstar: $(SRCTAR)
$(SRCTAR):
cvs export -r$(CVSTAG) -d $(PKG) java/bmsi/db
tar cvf $(PKG).tar $(PKG)
gzip -f $(PKG).tar
rm -r $(PKG)
Add your own rule to move the source tarball to the SOURCES directory.
> Is there any way to bypass thyis check? I realize this isn't standard
> practice - but it's the method we'd like to use if possible.
Generating the SOURCES from your source control system is easily automated,
as above. The SOURCES check verifies that the sources actually *can* be
generated from your source control system. It is not a check that you
want to bypass.
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Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@xxxxxxxx>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
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