On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 21:35 -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, JohnS wrote:
On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:36 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
There is very little to explain, if all you want to do is examine the source.
Install rpmdevtools. Run rpmdev-setuptree
Warning: No matches found for: rpmdevtools No Matches found
As I recall, rpmdevtools is a Fedora-ism
The actions in question set up a local %{_topdir} and then the RPMS, SOURCES, SPECS and so forth directories for a local user
[root@trap64 log]# su - herrold [herrold@trap64 ~]$ cat .rpmmacros %_topdir /home/herrold/rpmbuild %make make %dist orc %releasetagsuffix orc %vendor %{dist} # [herrold@trap64 ~]$ ls -l ~/rpmbuild/ total 40 drwxrwxr-x 8 herrold herrold 4096 Oct 10 21:12 BUILD drwxrwxr-x 4 herrold herrold 4096 Oct 4 16:53 RPMS drwxrwxr-x 3 herrold herrold 4096 Oct 10 21:12 SOURCES drwxrwxr-x 2 herrold herrold 4096 Oct 10 21:12 SPECS drwxrwxr-x 2 herrold herrold 4096 Oct 10 21:12 SRPMS [herrold@trap64 ~]$ RPM-build-tree.txt I think at one point the referenced package had a copy of a little script I've long since published at: ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/local/COLUG/RPM-build-tree.txt
itself based on a post on the mailing list rpm-list
-- Russ herrold
---- :-) Well I knew where it was, it's just not in the distro. (fedorism) He would yet be stuck installing another repo for the people. Would be easier to use your Russ RPM-build-tree.txt script for him to do it. I like this option also added to it "%_tmppath" /foo/hoo ....
John