Re: How do I change the tmppath

[Valery Reznic <valery_reznic yahoo com>]

--- Panu Matilainen <pmatilai laiskiainen org> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Linux wrote:
> 
> > How do I change the tmp path that RPM uses? I am
> trying to build the RPM
> > in my local user account but bases it off of root
> ('/'). With my own
> > macros, I change the tmp path, during the build
> process, I can echo the
> > tmp path and see that I changed it but it always
> adds '/' in the front.
> > For example, if I set the path to ./my_temp, it
> becomes /./my_temp.
> > 
> > One reason for the change, is I did a build and it
> put it in /tmp (not
> > ./tmp). Well it failed and left the structure in
> /tmp/package-1.0.3. A
> > co-worker started a build on the same computer but
> was prevented from
> > doing the build since I owned /tmp/package-1.0.3.
> He had to wait until I
> > deleted the directory tree in /tmp
> 
> Yup, the commonly used "BuildRoot:
> %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}" 
> and variants dont work very well in multiuser
> environment.
> Just put something like this into ~/.rpmmacros to
> make your builds 
> private:
> 
> %_tmppath %(echo $HOME)/tmp/
In my specfiles I use
Buildroot: %{_builddir}/%{_buildsubdir}-install-root
So it can be built in the multiuser environment
without  
changing anyones ~/.rpmmacros

Valery.


> 
>  	- Panu -
> 
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