Bug 55845 - --buildroot doesn't affect the Build root.
Summary: --buildroot doesn't affect the Build root.
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Johnson
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Reported: 2001-11-07 17:42 UTC by Dave Johnson
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-11-07 17:42:15 UTC
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Description Dave Johnson 2001-11-07 17:42:10 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Passing a --buildroot option seems to be ignored.  That is, even when
passing a --buildroot option, RPM looks for source files in the default
build root (/usr/src/redhat) and complains when the source files aren't
there.

Further, using a "buildroot: <path>" option in a .rpmrc results in an error
message: "error: bad option 'buildroot' in /home/johnsond/.rpmrc:1".

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.0.2-8

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -ba <specfile> --buildroot <path to build root>
	

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-11-15 23:56:08 UTC 
You're confusing --buildroot with the macro value
%{_builddir}. And you're probably looking to
change the macro %{_topdir} to something 
other than /usr/src/redhat. Do that by
	echo "%_topdir  /wherever/you/want" >> ~/.rpmmacros
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