Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 75265
Add --topdir to redifine the rpm %_topdir macro
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 Description of problem: I find that rpm -bb is difficult to run when you are not root. /usr/src/redhat is usually not accessable by the user. Without root access the only way for me to build rpms is to redifine the %_topdir macro in the spec file: %define _topdir /var/tmp/rpm Then you have to create the whole rpm directory structure under there. The enchancement I am asking for is 2 fold: 1. Add a --topdir option to the build command to specify where the directories are (rather then having the user change the spec file) 2. Try to create these directories if they don't exist. If you are on a system hosted by someone else, root access is not nesseserally available to change the permissions of /usr/src/redhat dirs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: run rpm -bb blah.spec as anything except root on a default installed RH system. Actual Results: permission denied errors. Expected Results: I would not get those since i would use the --topdir option to point to a writable directory. Additional info:
echo '%_topdir /home/mitr/data/redhat' >> ~/.rpmmacros is better than that, it is permanent and you don't need to add the --target to every rpmbuild invocation.
You can add a --topdir option to rpmbuild by putting in /etc/popt or ~/.popt rpmbuild alias --topdir --define '_topdir !#:+' rpm has way too many options for this to be added as part of default configuration