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

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:12:06AM -0500, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:

> [dimi@dimi ~]$ find /tmp/rpmbuilder-11253
> /tmp/rpmbuilder-11253
> /tmp/rpmbuilder-11253/.rpmmacros
> /tmp/rpmbuilder-11253/rpm
> /tmp/rpmbuilder-11253/rpm/tmp
> /tmp/rpmbuilder-11253/rpm/SPECS
> /tmp/rpmbuilder-11253/rpm/SOURCES
> /tmp/rpmbuilder-11253/rpm/SRPMS
> [dimi@dimi ~]$ cat /tmp/rpmbuilder-11253/.rpmmacros
> %_topdir                /tmp/rpmbuilder-11253/rpm
> %_tmppath               /tmp/rpmbuilder-11253/rpm/tmp
> [dimi@dimi ~]$ rpm --rcfile /tmp/rpmbuilder-11253/.rpmmacros -i ../../download/kernel-2.6.9-1.667.src.rpm
> error: missing ':' (found 0x2f) at /tmp/rpmbuilder-11253/.rpmmacros:1

The .rpmmacros file is *not* an rcfile (that's not needed here).
So, just use

   HOME=/tmp/rpmbuilder-11253 rpm -i ...

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