[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] rpmbuild --rebuild --noclean "doesn't work" (#667)

[rwmjones]

I'm trying to keep the build directory after a successful rpmbuild, but the obvious option of using `--noclean` doesn't work, it still deletes the directory:

```
$ rpmbuild --rebuild --noclean /home/nbdkit-1.8.0-1.el7.src.rpm
....
Executing(--clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ksxsLr
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/mm/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ rm -rf nbdkit-1.8.0
+ exit 0
```

Now reading the manual very closely I can see that this behaviour is documented.  `--noclean` skips the `%clean` step, but if your RPM spec file doesn't have a `%clean` step then it does nothing, so that's correct but also totally counter-intuitive and wrong.

There was a proposal to add `--skip-clean` (https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/7) but that seems to have gone nowhere.

So I'm going to argue that `--noclean` is broken.

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