RPM hacking.

[Panu Matilainen]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > 
> > The current set of options which can be "short-circuit"'ed are fine.  
> > However, from a security perspective, I would be very bothered by an
> > easy method of creating binary rpms which could not be rebuilt by the
> > source rpm.
> 
> Again: nobody wants to distribute the binary RPMs.
> 
> This for hacking/debugging only.
> 
> Say that I'm trying to chase down a kernel bug.  I have the kernel source 
> rpm unpacked and compiled in BUILD.
> 
> I'd like to be able to play with the kernel source, make small changes, and 
> be able to quickly build installable kernel RPMs for testing purposes, 
> instead of waiting two fscking hours to rebuild the whole bloody mess from 
> scratch all because of a one or a two-line change.

For debugging purposes it's possible to achieve this with a dirty little 
specfile hack, at least if your spec isn't full of %if's in which case you 
might get into trouble because of rpm's problems in handling nested %if's.

	- Panu -