On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:58 +0200, Thorsten Geelhaar wrote: > Hello Paul > > Paul Nasrat wrote: > > > > > It's been fixed for a while: > > > > http://rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/s1-rpm-anywhere-different-build-area.htm > > > > Where did you find your information? > > > Paul > > same place: http://rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/s1-rpmrc-file-rpmrc-file-locations.html Not all of maximum rpm has been updated as yet - it's done on an ad-hoc basis. Patches For now rm -f ~/.rpmrc and just use ~/.rpmmacros for things like packager and _topdir eg here I have: %_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpm %_tmpdir %{_topdir}/tmp %packager Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@xxxxxxxxxx> > " > .rpmrc in the user's login directory Patches against Maximum RPM in CVS are welcome: http://rpm.org/cvs_help/ Paul