[PLUG] centos4.3 rpmbuild not working as normal user

alan alan at clueserver.org
Mon Aug 7 18:15:00 UTC 2006


On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Galen Seitz wrote:
>
>> Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Do you still have /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.92486 lying around your
>>> filesystem? If so, do the contents look like the script that
>>> produced the root-invoked output:
>>
>> The files in /var/tmp are being removed and I don't know how to
>> prevent that.
>
> I don't think rpmbuild provides an option for keeping temp files. What
> I've typically done is pressed Ctrl-c shortly after the temp script
> begins its execution run. The temp file won't be cleaned up if
> rpmbuild is killed that way.

Actually you can.  Look at the man page for rpmbuild.  You can 
short-circuit it anywhere you want along the process.

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