Hi I tried to owerride topdir using /etc/rpmrc and ~/.rpmrc: topdir: /mytopdir I did also try do use tags like vendor and packager This resulted in error messages like: bad option 'topdir' at /etc/rpmrc:1 bad option 'vendor' at /etc/rpmrc:2 bad option 'packager' at /etc/rpmrc:3 Then I instead tried to create ~/.rpmmacros : %_topdir /mytopdir %vendor foo %packager bar This worked !!!!! I think that rpm should have given me a better errormessage when I tried to use a rpmrc file, especially when resouces like MaximumRPM states :"The vendor entry is a great example of a good candidate for inclusion in /etc/rpmrc"
This bug also applies to RedHat 7.0
Yes "Maximum RPM" is out of date, not much can be done. There's an error message already with legacy syntax, what needs doing more is to remove rpmrc configuration entirely, that will happen eventually.