Bug 756531

Summary: rpmbuild needs option to skip '%clean' phase
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Philip Prindeville <philipp>
Component: rpmAssignee: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Philip Prindeville 2011-11-23 20:44:01 UTC 
Description of problem:

It's sometimes useful to leave the resultant $RPM_BUILD_ROOT in place, especially so one can check the contents of manufactured files via sed scripts, or ownership, permissions, etc.

Skipping the %clean phase would allow this.

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rpm-build-4.9.1.2-1.fc16

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Comment 1 Toshio Kuratomi 2011-11-23 21:10:15 UTC 
Reassigned to rpm which is where rpm-build is built from.  However, is there a reason that something like rpmbuild -bi  is not sufficient for you?
Comment 2 Philip Prindeville 2011-11-23 21:24:45 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Reassigned to rpm which is where rpm-build is built from.  However, is there a
> reason that something like rpmbuild -bi  is not sufficient for you?

Because we'd also want the -bb phase done (the actual binary packaging).

There's a --clean option... why not a --noclean option?
Comment 3 Panu Matilainen 2012-08-02 09:18:45 UTC 
Implemented upstream now.
Comment 4 Panu Matilainen 2012-10-15 11:34:26 UTC 
rpm >= 4.10.1 in rawhide and F18 supports --noclean (and --nocheck). I've no plans to backport anything new to 4.9.x though, so closing.