rpmbuild isn't using the current working directory, instead using users home?

Question

When I use rpmbuild I get, No such file or directory.

# rpmbuild -ba ./SPECS/myFoo.spec
error: File /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/myFoo.tar.gz: No such file or directory

It seems to be reading from my home directory despite running the rpmbuild command from an entirely different user's home directory. However that doesn't change if I use --root (which is documented as "Use the file system tree rooted at DIRECTORY for all operations.")

# rpmbuild -ba ./SPECS/myFoo.spec --root /home/centos/myFoo/
error: File /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/myFoo.tar.gz: No such file or directory

What' the solution to getting this to look in the right place.

Answer 1

One method to do this, is

rpmbuild --define "_topdir `pwd`" -ba ./SPECS/myFoo.spec

No idea if that's the right method.

Answer 2

rpmbuild doesn’t particularly care about the current directory, except to find the files given to it as arguments. Everything else is based on the value of the _topdir macro. rpmbuild also really expects you to do all your building with a single directory structure.

You can define the root of rpmbuild’s directory structure permanently for any particular user by storing the appropriate value in ~/.rpmmacros:

%_topdir /path/to/your/data

Or, as you determined, override _topdir every time you run rpmbuild with the -D option.

Answer 3

I have the same problem, and I have used the follow solution.

Open the file ~/.rpmmacros

and change the line:

%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild

for:

%_topdir %(pwd)

Now:

rpmbuild -ba ./SPECS/myFoo.spec

will work as excepted.