[PlanetCCRMA] Re:Building rpms elsewhere than /usr/src/redhat

[Joseph Zitt]

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:41:00 -0500
Christopher Albert <albert at DMS.UMontreal.CA> wrote:

> This is in response to the poster who didn't have enough space in
> /usr/src to build his kernel rpm. 
> To change the default location, one needs to copy
> /usr/lib/rpm/macros to /root/.rpmmacros and then edit the latter file
> to change the %{_topdir} variable. It is all explained in the file
> /usr/lib/rpm/macros.

Hm... as you've suggested, I copied /usr/lib/rpm/macros to
/root/.rpmmacros then edited it to change

%_topdir              %{_usrsrc}/redhat

to

%_topdir                /ddrive/usrsrc/redhat

However, that seems not to have affected things:

[root at gimel root]# rpm -Uvh
/ddrive/apt/archives/kernel-source#2.4.19-1.ll\@i386_2.4.19-1.ll_i386.r
pm 

Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]

installing package kernel-source-2.4.19-1.ll needs 101Mb on the /
filesystem

[root at gimel root]# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7              1765992   1655700     20584  99% /
/dev/hda5              1022080    652428    369652  64% /ddrive
none                     31188         0     31188   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1              1022080    971648     50432  96% /windows
/dev/cdrom1             655730    655730         0 100% /mnt/cdrom1
[root at gimel root]#

(pardon wacky sylpheed-derived line wrapping)

There's plenty of room on /ddrive, so it looks to me like it's still
trying to unpack the file onto the / partition.

Is there anything else that I should change?

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