Unpacking SRPMs

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Fri May 17 16:03:36 UTC 2013


On 05/17/2013 10:01 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 05/17/2013 09:59 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> On 05/17/2013 08:37 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> I'd like some scriptable way to unpack SRPMs up and including to the %prep
>>> stage.  Ideally, the results would end up in a directory I specify, and
>>> intermediate directories which only contain a single subdirectory are
>>> skipped.  (The eventual goal is to run two such directory tress through diff
>>> -uraN, and I want to avoid spurious differences due to an update from foo-1.2
>>> to foo-1.3.)
>>>
>>> I've already learned the hard way that I need to use something like mock
>>> because some %prep script assume that build requires are installed.  But mock
>>> does not appear to support an option to stop after the %prep stage.
>>>
>>> Unpacking SRPMs seems to be fairly common operation.  Has something like this
>>> already been implemented?
>>>
>>
>> Something like:
>>
>> rpm -i -D "_sourcedir /tmp/dir1" srpm
>> rpmbuild -bp --nodeps -D "_builddir /tmp/dir1" /tmp/dir1/*.spec
>>
>> Should do the trick.
>>
>>
>
> Sorry:
>
> rpm -ivh -D "_sourcedir /tmp/dir1" -D "_specdir /tmp/dir1" <srpm>
> rpmbuild -bp --nodeps -D "_builddir /tmp/dir1" /tmp/dir1/*.spec

Gah:

rpmbuild -bp --nodeps -D "_builddir /tmp/dir1" -D "_sourcedir /tmp/dir1" 
/tmp/dir1/*.spec


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