Confusion with rpmbuild and Fedora 10

[eliwap]

I've tried to rebuild a couple of SRPMs and found that they did not get built in, for expample

/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64

Instead, after guessing, I found that they were build in

/root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x64_64

Is this the way things work now? Is there anyway to get the old behavior back? Any insights?

Thanks

Eli

[BlueC]

Not sure if that behaviour has changed but you really should NEVER build software as root user, and that includes building RPMs.

A good way is to run "rpmdev-setuptree" as a normal user and it will create an RPM build root in ~/rpmbuild/ and then whenever you build under that user it will use this directory as the build tree top directory. It will also create the file ~/.rpmmacros which you can configure to your taste.

HTH
C

[eliwap]

OK. Thanks for that I will try what you suggested and post back.

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

Yes, the behaviour has changed and rpmbuild uses ~home/rpmbuild by default now. As the previous poster said, you should never ever build rpm packages as root. A separate user is much safer. Instead of configuring things manually, you can follow

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packag...em_and_account

[eliwap]

I will be taking a look at this soonest however, do you have a quick answer as to how one is supposed to deal with 3rd party apps that have no idea which user I'm using to rebuild apps.

[sideways]

Originally Posted by eliwap

I will be taking a look at this soonest however, do you have a quick answer as to how one is supposed to deal with 3rd party apps that have no idea which user I'm using to rebuild apps.

make a softlink in /usr/src to the relevant directory in the user's home.

[eliwap]

Now why didn't I think of that? Tells you how tired I am. Thanks sideways, that should do the trick