On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Gareth Walters wrote:
> G'day all,
>
> using RedHat 7.3 I am trying to package some some stuff as an RPM, I have the
> specfile as part of the CVS source tree so that any user who can check out
> the code and build it can make an RPM without too much trouble.(that is the
> plan anyway)
>
> The problem is I would like to use a different "topdir" than /usr/src/redhat
> and according to the documentation I should just make a .rpmrc file in my
> home directory with this entry
> topdir: /home/garethw/newtopdir
>
> The problem is when I try and build the package with RPM I get
>
> RPM build errors:
> bad option 'topdir' at /home/garethw/.rpmrc:1
> Bad file: /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/server: No such file or directory
> error: bad option 'topdir' at /home/garethw/.rpmrc:1
>
> So what am I doing wrong?
> Is there another way to tell rpm not to usr /usr/src/redhat ??
Yes, try to use ~/.rpmmacros instead, for example:
$ cat ~/.rpmmacros
%_topdir /home/wim/rpmroot
%_sourcedir %{_topdir}/SOURCES/%{name}
%_rpmdir %{_topdir}/RPMS
%_rpmfilename %%{NAME}-%%{VERSION}-%%{RELEASE}.%%{ARCH}.rpm
wim
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