[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] %prep working directory different when using --build-in-place in Fedora 40 vs Fedora Rawhide (Issue #3208)

[Panu Matilainen]

It just occurred to me that another possibility could be defining build-in-place as to override the main %prep section, but allow appended sections to be executed as normal for other actions. This would probably help share a spec between a "normal" and in-place build. For example:

```
%prep
%autosetup

%prep -a
# nuke an accidental binary in dist tarball
rm -f bin/blob
```

With that scenario, an in-place build of the spec would skip the main %prep with %autosetup (by placing an empty script there) but still execute the -a section to do another action. This seems to allow for much more flexibility at some cost to ambiguity and options for abuse (like placing %setup in %prep -a section), but that could be declared an operator error I guess.

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