On 10/26/2016 10:07 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Trying to build a package from a gzipped tarball of a python package. > I'm trying to build it in /root/rpmbuild. To echo Frank's advice: don't do that. Build rpms as a non-root user. Consider using "mock", especially if you intend to distribute your packages. > Python has a way to build it, > but it creates its own tree, with a clone of the rpmbuild tree under > *that*. It sounds like you're using "setup.py bdist_rpm". When you do that, python's setuptools will create a temporary rpm build environment in ./build/. You should also get the src.rpm in ./dist/ If you want to build the package in your own rpmroot, just take the src.rpm from ./dist/ and rebuild it.