Setting up your RPM environment

From Crashcourse Wiki

If you plan on building your own RPM files, or want to build RPM binaries from their source files, create your own (non-root) RPM-building environment in your home directory with a couple simple commands.

Pick a decent directory name -- say, rpms -- and:

$ mkdir -p rpms/{BUILD,RPMS,SRPMS,SOURCES,SPECS}

then identify this new directory as your RPM working directory by creating the file .rpmmacros containing the single line:

%_topdir      %(echo $HOME)/rpms

From now on, all of your RPM manipulation (building new RPMs, downloading and building from source) will use that directory, and you can do almost anything RPM-related you want as a regular user (short of installing those RPMs, of course).

Comments and feedback to rpjday@crashcourse.ca.

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