From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: The documentation explains to use topdir: <path> to set a different top directory, but rpm does not understand this, it complains with error: bad option 'topdir' at /home/hat/.rpmrc:356 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.2-0.69 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. echo "topdir: /home/blabla/mydir" > ~/.rpmrc 2. rpm -i <something> 3. Observe the output of the rpm command Actual Results: it does not work !! :-) rpm switches to the default /usr/src/redhat but I have no write access there, so the install fails Expected Results: It should have used /home/blabla/mydir as top directory for the rpm command Additional info: There is no entry for reporting bugs in documentation in this bugzilla instance
This has already been fixed in CVS. Unfortunately the site hosting the newer copy is down atm. I'll update www.rpm.org with the latest working copy also.
http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/s1-rpm-anywhere-different-build-area.html