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On Tuesday 22 April 2003 12:26 pm, William Hooper wrote:
> Michael Schwendt said:
> > Either change %_sourcedir to
> >
> > %_sourcedir %{_topdir}
> >
> > in your ~/.rpmmacros or create the necessary directory manually.
> > Then rpmbuild -ta will work.
>
> You are correct. Thanks!
>
> I actually changed it to
> %_sourcedir %{_topdir}/SOURCES
>
> instead of
>
> %_sourcedir %{_topdir}/SOURCES/%{name}-%{version}
>
> after replying to Mike Vanecek's message because RPM didn't clean up by
> removing the name-version directory automatically. After thinking
> about it, the behavior of leaving the directory makes sense, I just
> don't need to have the extra directory created in the first place.
>
> I would have been wondering why it suddenly worked had I tried it
> again!
Sorry for the confussion. The script sets things up that way because
that's how I like it. ;)
I didn't like having source and patches dumped in /SOURCES and the
specfile in SPECS/
I've found it much easier to deal with when the source, patches and
specfile are all in SOURCES/%{name}-%{version}/.
For example, when building the kernel.src.rpm, it installs almost 200
files in SOURCES/. Xfree86 is good for another 30-40 files. Combined with
the source and patches from several other packages, it gets difficult to
handle in a hurry when it is all in one directory. At least for me, your
mileage may vary, to each his own, etc. ;)
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