At 5:42 PM -0600 9/26/05, Philip Prindeville wrote: >I'm trying to build a slightly patched version of the x11-xorg source >RPM with the latest Unichrome drivers built in... And I have a generic >RPM question. > >If I don't want to build in /usr/src/redhat/ but instead have an NFS >mounted directory that I share amongst a variety of machines called >/home/src/ instead,how would I do a "rpmbuild -bc" but override the >directory that gets used? > >Do I need to redefine _topdir or $RPM_BUILD_ROOT or $RPM_BUILD_DIR or >what? Get the fedora-rpmdevtools rpm from Fedora Extras, and modify the fedora-buildrpmtree script. You just need a standard RPM build tree, and a line in your .rpmmacros file. >P.S. Is there a good tutorial or O'Reilly book or whatever on becoming >an RPM guru? _Maximum RPM_, which is a bit out of date: <http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/snapshot/> ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
