Bug 11905
| Summary: | rpm doesn't recognize options in rpmrc | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Adi Linden <adi> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | ||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-06-04 21:04:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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The manner in which rpm is configured has changed since "Maximum RPM" was written. You have two choices: 1) Build/install rpm-2.5.x from ftp.rpm.org 2) Configure using rpm-3.0 macros. For your example above this is done by putting in ~/.rpmmacros: %_topdir /home/adi/RPM_TESTING/build %vendor PeeWeeLinux %buildroot /home/adi/RPM_TESTING/tmp The complete list of configuration macros is in /usr/lib/rpmrc/macros. The other gotcha is that --rcfile now takes a colon separated list of rpmrc files, so either invoke (as above) like --rcfile /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc:./rpmrc or add at the top of your rpmrc file include: /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc |
I am trying to get started in using rpm. I read through the RPM-HOWTO and the pertinent sections in the Maximum RPM book. I am trying to build rpm's in a directory different than the system default to avoid contaminating the system with my trial attempts. I am assuming the rpmrc file is where the directory options are to go. Here is an rpmrc file I created: topdir: /home/adi/RPM_TESTING/build vendor: PeeWeeLinux buildroot: /home/adi/RPM_TESTING/tmp When I run rpm with in the followinf way: rpm --rcfile=rpmrc --showrc I get the following errors: bad option 'topdir' at rpmrc:2 bad option 'vendor' at rpmrc:3 bad option 'buildroot' at rpmrc:4 ARCHITECTURE AND OS: build arch : i686 compatible build archs: i686 build os : Linux I tried relocating my rpmrc file to /etc/rpmrc and ~/.rpmrc and the results are the same. So I am assuming rpm is broken and doesn't have a clue how to read it's rpmrc file. So how can I customize my rpm building environment??? Adi