Re: error: bad option 'topdir' at rpmrc

[Paul Nasrat <pnasrat redhat com>]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:15:59PM +0200, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:08:33PM +0200, Francois Belliard ELIOS wrote:
> 
> > It does not seem to work . I get the following error when launching 
> > rpmbuild :
> >     "error: bad option 'topdir' at /users/fbelliard/.rpmrc:1"
> 
> I don't know if you can specify topdir (or _topdir) in rpmrc,
> but at least specifying
> 
> 	%_topdir	/...your...path
> 
> in ~/.rpmmacros works.  Or on the rpmbuild command line with:
> 
> 	--define '_topdir /...your...path'

Yes Maximimu rpm is outdated in some respects -

http://rpm-devel.colug.net/max-rpm/ actually has that section fixed up.

Paul