On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> (aside)
> FYI: I'm very likely to change to the above as default
> hierarchy in rpm-5.4.x, largely because @rpm.org changes with
> ~/rpmbuild/* already have changed RPM's default behavior,
> and I see no reason to maintain consistency with,
On Jan 1, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote:
>
> Thanks Jeff, that worked !
>
Instead of the usual {RPMS,SRPMS,BUILD,SOURCES,SPECS}
hierarchy, you might try building like I do.
I tend to have multiple versions of both rpm and distro
packaging lying around always, and need to flip betwee
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>
> All macros in configuration file loads have to start with '%' in
> 1st column.
>
> So you need this
>
> %_topdir /workspace/rpmwork
>
Thanks Jeff, that worked !
-- Sriram
> hth
>
> 73 de Jeff
> ___
On Jan 1, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote:
> /usr/local/lib/rpm/%{_target}/rpmpopt
Note the unexpanded macro here. That's "Have it your own way!"
flexibility as compiled.
>
> 0 2237 open64:entry rpmbuild /home/sriram/.rpmmacros
>
This SHOULD have read wyat
Ok, using dtrace, I was able to figure out what rpmbuild is doing:
0 1837 open:entry rpmbuild /var/ld/ld.config
0 1837 open:entry rpmbuild
/usr/local/lib/librpmbuild-5.2.so
0 1837 open:entry rpmbuild
/usr/local/lib/librpm
On Jan 1, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Sriram Narayanan wrote:
> Hi:
>
> This is a newbie question. I presently have ~/.rpmrc containing
> _topdir:/workspace
>
You want ~/.rpmmacros.
Check with
strace -e open rpmbuild ...
if you run into issues figgering out what paths are open'ed.
rpmbuild is
Hi:
This is a newbie question. I presently have ~/.rpmrc containing
_topdir:/workspace
However, when I run rpmbuild --showrc | grep topdir, I get:
rpmbuild --showrc | grep topdir
-14: _builddir %{_topdir}/BUILD
-14: _rpmdir%{_topdir}/RPMS
-14: _sourcedir %{_topdir}/SOURCES
-14: _specdir %{
