Can rpmbuild produce a 'build logs' rpm also?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 10:41:51AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Can rpmbuild be taught to produce a 'build logs' rpm (or tarball or something)
> that isn't automatically added to the installation set by koji/bodhi and that
> can get generated even in the event of a build failure?
> 
> I have seen two examples of where this could be useful:
> 
>  (1) gcc-5 dumps a whole chunk of tar'd, bzip'd and uuencoded testing logs to
>      stdout because it has nowhere else to put them.
> 
>  (2) I'm seeing a config failure building cross-gcc on ARM that doesn't occur
>      on x86_64 or i686 - but it happens in koji where I can't get at the
>      config.log to see what happened.

I don't think an RPM would help.  However it would be nice if Koji
allowed you to pull files from the build tree, especially after a
failure.

In the past I have done this:

  %{configure} || { cat config.log ; exit 1 }

I also did some hairy uuencoding to dump out binaries that I wanted to
capture.

Rich.

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