Am 24.03.2010 12:30, schrieb Simon Horman: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:43:49AM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: >> Am 19.03.2010 21:37, schrieb Eric W. Biederman: >>> Ameya Palande <2ameya at gmail.com> writes: >>> >>>> Since current mechanism for building rpm into custom directory is not working, >>>> remove it and switch to system defaults for rpmbuild. >>> >>> Does RPM really bit rot that quickly? >>> >>> I know at the time I added the code it was the only way I could >>> get rpm to build an rpm without being root. Something that seems >>> desirable. >> >> It works here on openSUSE 11.1 when I change >> >> -RPMDIR=rpm >> +RPMDIR=$(shell pwd)/rpm >> >> Of course only after applying the other patches... > > That seems reasonable to me, care to make it a proper patch? Since 529ad47e356a8e68be9cde771af8e909a784c3fc has been applied which removes that code, this is no longer possible. ;) However, I'm fine with that change. The user can always create a custom ~/.rpmmacros like %_topdir /home/bwalle/src/packages to build the RPM in a local tree. Regards, Bernhard
