as a followup to my previous post, here's what i'm effectively after --
i want a way to run "rpmbuild --rebuild" on a source RPM in the current
directory, and i want all of the building to be done in a subdirectory of
the current directory; that is, the rebuilding should do *nothing*
outside of the current directory, whatever directory i happen to be in.
currently, when i want to rebuild a source RPM for myself, i override
the build locations in my home .rpmmacros files, which contains (among
other things):
%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/build/rpms
%_sourcedir %{_topdir}/SOURCES/%{name}-%{version}
%_specdir %{_sourcedir}
%_builddir %{_topdir}/BUILD
%_tmppath %{_topdir}/tmp
#
# this next line shouldn't be necessary
#
%tmpdir %{_topdir}/tmp
%_buildroot %{_topdir}/%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
%_rpmdir %{_topdir}/RPMS
%_srcrpmdir %{_topdir}/SRPMS
%_rpmfilename %%{NAME}-%%{VERSION}-%%{RELEASE}.%%{ARCH}.rpm
and all this works fine.
but i want to make this building part of a larger software structure, so
that others can do the build, and all of the building is still restricted
to the current directory and further subdirectores (./BUILD, ./SOURCES,
./SPECS and so on). i can't count on anyone else having their own
.rpmmacros file so all customization has to be part of the software
structure. in fact, i can't count on these other users to have done
*anything* in the way of customizing their own environments. so, based on
the docs, here's what appears to be the solution.
i can create a shareable macros file with all of the above, *except* for
the _topdir macro, which will change from directory to directory. so what
i'd be looking at is something like:
$ cd <directory with source RPM>
$ rpmbuild --rebuild \
--define '_topdir .' \
--macros=<shareable macros file> \
<source RPM file>
how close is this to a solution? for each directory, i want _topdir to be
defined to be that current working directory. based on that, i want the
remaining macros in that macros file to construct the working directories
off of that, based on the value of _topdir they get from that --define
value.
am i close? or am i making this far too difficult? and what's the
format for prepending a macros file to the default list, rather than
overriding the whole list?
rday
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