Re: building an rpm from souce without installing

[Col]

Nick Rout wrote:

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:47:27 +1300
Col <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

Nick Rout wrote:

   

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:57:17 +1300
Col <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


     

Nick Rout wrote:

  

       

I want to build a binary rpm from a source rpm, without installing the
binaries on the system, ie I don't want to risk mucking up my existing
installation of the earlier version of same package.
all of the rpm -b options seem to want to build, install, then package.
I want to just build then package, 

anyone know how to do this?

my reference for all this is here:

http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-rpm-b-command.html

    

         

yeah but that installs it as well (I think)

     

$rpm -qa | grep testfilefrompreviouspost
shows that it's not installed.
   

from man rpm:

rpm {--rebuild|--recompile} SOURCEPKG ...

      When  invoked this way, rpm installs the named source package, and does
      a prep, compile and install.   In  addition,  --rebuild  builds  a  new
      binary  package.  When  the build has completed, the build directory is
      removed (as in --clean) and the the sources and spec file for the pack-
      age are removed.
 

Sorry. It looks like it depends on whats in the %install section of the 
spec file embedded
in the source rpm.

Col.