Overriding default BuildRoot

[Red Cricket]

There is a command-line option to rpmbuild that maybe helpful to you.

 rpmbuild --buildroot ...

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Wempa, Kristofer
<Kristofer.Wempa at sig.com> wrote:
> I have been using RPM to build thousands of packages for various SuSE and
> RedHat Linux distributions.  We recently acquired Red Hat 6 servers and I
> noticed that the RPM on that server sets a “BuildRoot” by default.  I need
> to override this since we already have a well-defined structure for our tool
> chains.  Modifying all of the spec files is not an option since the packages
> all install in various ways.  I tried re-defining the %{buildroot} and
> %{_buildrootdir} macros in my local macros file, but it looks like RPM
> ignores this.  How can I unset the BuildRoot so that my builds will behave
> as they have with other operating systems ?  Thanks in advance.
>
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>                 Kris
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