[CentOS-devel] still trying to build upstream srpms

Mon Sep 1 15:17:34 UTC 2008
Jeff Sheltren <jeff at osuosl.org>

On Aug 31, 2008, at 8:15 PM, Joe Pruett wrote:
> second, even though karanbir will be trying to build the rpms i am  
> interested in, so far no one has actually answered how we know what  
> rpmbuild command line to give.  there are lots of --define  
> possibilities and i don't see that info available from a binary  
> rpm.  so how do we know how to build a package?

What's implied when people say mock is being used, is that there are  
no special '--define', etc. flags passed to rpmbuild from within mock.

-Jeff