Re: [RFH] Managing the rpm/{SPECS,SOURCES} namespace

["Dimitrie O. Paun" <dpaun rogers com>]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 06:05:03PM -0500, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> For that reason, I specify a different directory organization in
> my ~/.rpmmacros file that incorporates %{name} in the path:
> 
> %_topdir                /home/rugolsky/rpm
> %_rpmtopdir             %{_topdir}/pkgs/%{name}
> %_sourcedir             %{_rpmtopdir}
> %_specdir               %{_rpmtopdir}

That's a nice solution, but then you have to have a
wrapper script around rpmbuild to create all this
dirs, no? BTW, is there a way to override this _topdir
from the command line?

> This breaks the occasional package, but is otherwise well worth it.

How common is the breakage? Will any RPMs that come from RedHat/Fedora
break because of this?

-- 
Dimi.