2008/12/30 Peter da Silva <[email protected]>: > And you can't even make it do the work in a custom directory without > changing a magic dotfile in your home directory. So if you want to make an > automated RPM build process that's running on a shared build server, you > can't do it when anyone else is using the thing.
IIRC you can do that, by changing some global macro. (I've built for years RPMs on a shared build server.) What's hateful is that the macros are obscure, undocumented, subject to change in ways not appearing in RPM changelogs, and widely customized by every RPM-using Linux vendor.
