Re: (no subject)

["Christian 'Dr. Disk' Hechelmann" <drdisk drdisk de>]

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Mariappan, MaharajanX wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Is it possible to use normal user's home dir as SOURCES, SRPMS, SPECS and
> BUILD dir instead of 
> /usr/src/redhat/...

Yes, it is. Very easily indeed.

> I've tried to chnage %_usr macto to point to %HOME/test dir indstad of /usr
> but seems not picking up changed value 
> for SOURCES location.

Close, but no cigar. ;)

Just put the following into ~/.rpmmacros (create it if it doesn't exist):

%_topdir	/path/to/users/redhat

Then recreate the directory structure below /usr/src/redhat under
/path/to/users/redhat.  Now you're all set. You might also set %_tmppath
to somethere else, depending on what you build /var/tmp may have not
enough space.

	Ciao Chris
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