How do I change the tmppath

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[Panu Matilainen]

How do I change the tmp path that RPM uses? I am trying to build the RPM
in my local user account but bases it off of root ('/'). With my own
macros, I change the tmp path, during the build process, I can echo the
tmp path and see that I changed it but it always adds '/' in the front.
For example, if I set the path to ./my_temp, it becomes /./my_temp.
One reason for the change, is I did a build and it put it in /tmp (not
./tmp). Well it failed and left the structure in /tmp/package-1.0.3. A
co-worker started a build on the same computer but was prevented from
doing the build since I owned /tmp/package-1.0.3. He had to wait until I
deleted the directory tree in /tmp

Yup, the commonly used "BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}"
and variants dont work very well in multiuser environment.
Just put something like this into ~/.rpmmacros to make your builds
private:

%_tmppath %(echo $HOME)/tmp/

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[Valery Reznic]

How do I change the tmp path that RPM uses? I am

trying to build the RPM

in my local user account but bases it off of root

('/'). With my own

macros, I change the tmp path, during the build

process, I can echo the

tmp path and see that I changed it but it always

adds '/' in the front.

For example, if I set the path to ./my_temp, it

becomes /./my_temp.

One reason for the change, is I did a build and it

put it in /tmp (not

./tmp). Well it failed and left the structure in

/tmp/package-1.0.3. A

co-worker started a build on the same computer but

was prevented from

doing the build since I owned /tmp/package-1.0.3.

He had to wait until I

deleted the directory tree in /tmp

%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}"
and variants dont work very well in multiuser
environment.
Just put something like this into ~/.rpmmacros to
make your builds
%_tmppath %(echo $HOME)/tmp/

In my specfiles I use
Buildroot: %{_builddir}/%{_buildsubdir}-install-root
So it can be built in the multiuser environment
without
changing anyones ~/.rpmmacros

Valery.

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[devzero2000]

Or, perhaps better, in ~/.rpmmacros put this lines

%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild
%_tmppath %{_topdir}/tmp
%_buildroot %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
%_rpmfilename %%{NAME}-%%{VERSION}-%%{RELEASE}.%%{ARCH}.rpm
#
# the latter it is creating all the rpm type(arch,noarch) under
%{_topdir}/RPMS (e.g. the
default exansion of the rpm macros %{_rpmdir} : look at
rpm --eval '%{_rpmdir}' after you have done the above modificatiion on
~/.rpmmacros )


Then

mkdir -p $HOME/rpmbuild/{SRPMS,RPMS,BUILD,SPECS,tmp}

hth

How do I change the tmp path that RPM uses? I am trying to build the RPM

in my local user account but bases it off of root ('/'). With my own
macros, I change the tmp path, during the build process, I can echo the
tmp path and see that I changed it but it always adds '/' in the front.
For example, if I set the path to ./my_temp, it becomes /./my_temp.
One reason for the change, is I did a build and it put it in /tmp (not
./tmp). Well it failed and left the structure in /tmp/package-1.0.3. A
co-worker started a build on the same computer but was prevented from
doing the build since I owned /tmp/package-1.0.3. He had to wait until I
deleted the directory tree in /tmp

Yup, the commonly used "BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}" and
variants dont work very well in multiuser environment.
Just put something like this into ~/.rpmmacros to make your builds
%_tmppath %(echo $HOME)/tmp/
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[Michael Jennings]

On Thursday, 17 April 2008, at 11:08:00 (+0200),

Post by devzero2000
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

[devzero2000]

Right

was a bad cut-and-paste, in effect in my .rpmmacros the buildroot is
prefixed by a #.

Sorry for the error.

Regards

Post by Michael Jennings
On Thursday, 17 April 2008, at 11:08:00 (+0200),

Post by devzero2000
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
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