Re: Building rpm-python from scratch?

On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 12:32 -0500, Brad Smith wrote:

> Ok, I'm just going to have to ask a dummy rpmbuild question now. Not having root on the RHEL3
> system, I installed the .src.rpm on my laptop and copied the relevant /usr/src/redhat/* directories
> from it to ~/src/rpmbuild/ on the RHEL3 box. However...
> 
> [brads@loop rpmbuild]$ rpmbuild -bb --buildroot /home/brads/src/rpmbuild/ SPECS/rpm.spec
> error: File /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/rpm-4.2.3.tar.gz: No such file or directory
> 
> My understanding was that --buildroot told rpmbuild to look in a dir other than /usr/src/redhat. I
> also tried setting "%define __prefix        /home/brad/src/rpmbuild/" in the spec file, but it's
> still trying to build out of /usr/src/redhat, which I don't have access too. Any idea what I'm doing
> wrong here?

You need to define topdir

create ~/.rpmmacros with 
%_topdir        %(echo $HOME)/src/rpmbuild

Then just use rpmbuild -bb ~/src/rpmbuild/SPECS/rpm.spec

Paul