Re: getting current values of rpm variables ?

[Paul Shearer <paulsh sequent com>]

  "richard offer" writes:

> 
> * $ from shiva@well.com at "13-Mar: 7:39pm" | sed "1,$s/^/* /"
> *
> *
> * On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 19:30:04 -0800, richard offer wrote:
> *
> * >* Give `rpm --eval '%{_topdir}'` a try.
> * >Thanks for that info, but it doesn't seem to do anything.
> * >[ valkyrie 2.2.14 ] rpm --eval '%{_topdir}'
> * ><blank line>
> * >My suspicion is that it is related to the fact that I'm running chroot'ed 
> as
> it
> * >seem to work on another machine with rpm v4.
> *
> * That would do it. The value has to come from some macro file, either
> * that of the user running rpm or the default ones in /usr/lib/rpm.
> * You'll need to make those available to the chroot'ed environment.
> 
> No, I'm not doing rpm --root $ROOT , I'm doing chroot $ROOT ; rpm
> 
> ie, $ROOT has everything,
> inside the root /usr/lib/rpm/... etc $HOME/.rpmmacros all exist.

Then it should still work if $ROOT/usr/lib/rpm/macros contains _topdir.

Note for others:
rpm --root $ROOT      evaluates rpmrc and macros before chroot.
i.e.
"rpm --root $ROOT"    evaluates /usr/lib/rpm/macros
"chroot $ROOT; rpm"   evaluates $ROOT/usr/lib/rpm/macros

If these are blank:
chroot $ROOT; rpm --eval '%{_topdir}'
chroot $ROOT; rpm --showrc | grep _topdir

Then I would assume that _topdir is not defined in $ROOT/usr/lib/rpm/macros.

Paul Shearer
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