Re: How do I change the tmppath

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/

 	- Panu -