On Thursday, 17 April 2008, at 11:08:00 (+0200), devzero2000 wrote: > Or, perhaps better, in ~/.rpmmacros put this lines > > %_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild > %_tmppath %{_topdir}/tmp > %_buildroot %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Do not use this. Despite its proliferation in Fedora, it is not portable. It is also completely unnecessary in the above example (since %{_tmppath} is already user- and build-specific) or in any properly-written build tool. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Kyrie eleison down the road that I must travel. Kyrie eleison through the darkness of the night. Kyrie eleison; where I'm going, will you follow?" -- Mr. Mister, "Kyrie" _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list