rpmbuild - how to not print commands in spec file

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Mon Oct 16 14:36:52 UTC 2017


Hello;
    Thanks for responding. "Set +x" certainly seemed like the logical
choice, but unfortunately that didn't solve the problem. I tried doing a
"rpmbuild --quiet" but then my printf statements were suppressed also.  
Thanks;
John V. 

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Subject: Re: rpmbuild - how to not print commands in spec file 

In regard to: rpmbuild - how to not print commands in spec file , Tech...:

>    Sorry if this is an obvious question, but I've gone through the rpm 
> documentation (all 400 pages of it) and I'm not finding the solution. 
> When I run rpmbuild with the spec file, every command is printed out 
> with all of the expanded arguments. The docs say that there's a way to
turn that off.
> What I would like to do is only print out what I tell it to print out 
> and not print all of the commands. Any insight at all would be greatly 
> appreciated.

I haven't followed how recent Fedora & Red Hat's rpm 4.x has diverged
(advanced?) from the documentation, so there may be a global macro that you
can set that will disable the "set -x" that gets added in each section, but
the "old way" to do it would be to put

set +x

at the top of each section (right after %prep, right after %build, right
after %install) etc.

Tim
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