Re: Working version of RPM for alpha osf1?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer pasteur fr>]

On Friday 11 August 2000, at 17 h 25, the keyboard of "Dr. Doug L. Hoffman" 
<hoffman@dlhoffman.com> wrote:

> Does anyone out there have a working version of rpm for a dec (compaq)
> alpha running osf1/Tru64? 

It works immediately without problems (gcc 2.95).

> [mable]dohoff>rpm -ba -vv propertiesplus-1.8.spec 
> Unable to open temp file.

RPM is really awfully bad in error messages, even the file name is not 
reported. I had to run it with trace to find out where was this f... file.

--buildroot=/var/tmp

and/or:

%buildroot /var/tmp/$RPM_PACKAGE_NAME
%buildroot /var/tmp/%{name}

may help.

> tempted to use another build area as a way around this only to find that the "t
> opdir" option is nolonger valid in a .rpmrc file

"Maximum RPM" is quite out-of-date and RPM documentation is not clear. Check doc/manual/macros.