Home/ Questions/Q 8996145
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-15T23:42:54+00:00

I am getting the following in my build log: Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.CgE2Qn +

  • 0

I am getting the following in my build log:

Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.CgE2Qn
+ umask 022
+ cd /export/home/svn_checkouts/*snip*/Output/release/bin/packaging/BUILD
+ /bin/rm -rf /export/home/svn_checkouts/*snip*/Output/release/bin
+ exit 0

I’d like to avoid rpmbuild deleting all the files in my build directory as I need them for other things after the RPM is built. Can I override this behavior?

I read that some versions of RPM support a --noclean argument, but ours doesn’t unfortunately.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Turns out I just needed to provide my own %clean directive in the spec file and leave it blank to override the default. For some reason I didn’t expect that to work. 😉

    A define can conditionalize the %Clean% phase so that the same effect as --noclean can be achieved.

    %Clean
%if "%{noclean}" == ""
   rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
%endif

    Called with rpmbuild --define 'noclean 1' to disable cleaning.

    • 0