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  From: Michael T Pope <mpope@internode.on.net>
  To  : <michaeld@senet.com.au>
  Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:33:05 +0930

Re: Building RPMs

michaeld@senet.com.au writes:

> Anyone out there done much of building RPMs?

Enough to have discovered, as you have, that "Maximum RPM" is badly
out of date.
 
> So I try this, but when I do a 
> 
> rpm --initdb --dbpath /home/mdavies/rpm/database
> 
> to start my own database (ie I don't have access to /var/lib/rpm/* either :-( I 
> get the following:
> 
> bad option 'topdir' at /home/mdavies/.rpmrc:1

Not pretty.  I have given up on .rpmrc and defined a shell alias for
frobbing my rpm database.  The base command is:

  rpm --define '_topdir /home/mpope/rpm' --dbpath /home/mpope/rpm/db

which I worked out by reading stuff in /usr/lib/rpm.

Cheers,
Mike Pope

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