[BIGTOP-60] Add normal rpmbuild options for make rpm

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: rpm
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Peter Linnell
• Created: 01/Sep/11 13:17
• Updated: 26/Mar/13 18:16

Description

As I have been working on the hadoop packaging, it occurred to me it would
be nice to have an option where rpmbuild permits different steps of the
build with a -short-circuit option allowing you to for example run:

make CDH=cmf make hadoop-rpm -bi

Explanation:

For a long time rpmbuild allows you to short circuit the build steps for
diagnosis. So rpmbuild -bc does the compile part -ti does the build and
install steps without needing to wipe the buildroot and recompiling.

The reason I ask is much of the time of creating and modifying rpms is
not the compile parts, but getting the install, permissions and files
list correct.

Having this option would allow a quicker turnaround from
spec file changes to build completion. Most of the time in the make rpm
build is in the compile phase which can be lengthy at times.