rpmbuild not working on FC 10

Thu Jan 8 13:22:58 UTC 2009

On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:01:21 +0500, Linux wrote:

> Dario Lesca on 1/8/2009 5:22 PM +0500, wrote :
> > Il giorno gio, 08/01/2009 alle 00.44 +0500, Linux student ha scritto:
> >   
> >> Hi ,
> >>
> >> I am trying to build rpm using same spec files i've used on FC8 but
> >> after upgrading my system to FC10 rpmbuild not working for me :
> >>     
> >
> > I use this procedure one time ...
> >
> >   
> >> mkdir ~/rpmbuild
> >> cd ~/rpmbuild
> >> mkdir -p BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS
> >> echo "%_topdir	/u/master/addon/esempi.conf/rpm/rpmbuild" > ~/.rpmmacros
> >>     
> >
> > hope this help
> >
> >   
> Thanks Lesca , as they say using --buildroot / can bite you 

It can't. For a very long time you would get:

error: %{buildroot} can not be "/"