[ale] RPM binaries?

[timothy at meanor.net]

You can define %_topdir in .rpmmacros to specify your own build directory (where the subdirectories RPMS, SRPMS, SRC, BUILD, and SPECS are found).
e.g. %_topdir /home/joeblow/rpms

Look in /usr/lib/rpm/macros for all the various macros that are used by rpm.  

-Tim

>>Hi folks,
>>
>>I'm in need of recent sources or binaries of rpm, rpmbuild
>>and friends.  Is it just me, or is http://rpm.org a complete
>>waste of space?  I got the raw source from rpm.org's
>>Mercurial repository, but building that source requires
>>Autoconf plus some other stuff that I just don't have
>>time to fool with at the moment.
>>
>>Is there a place to get buildable source of RPM, short
>>of installing a recent version of Fedora?
>>
>>FYI, I'm trying to build an RPM for some proprietary
>>software, and I want to do this in a private RPM
>>source tree and database, as recommended by most
>>recent RPM docs; rather than polluting my system
>>RPM DB with half-baked crap.  However, there are no
>>good explanations (that I can find) of how to do this
>>(for example, what must I put in ~/.rpmrc in order to
>>convince rpm and rpmbuild to use my private source
>>and DB trees?)
>>
>>Yes, I've read the RPM guide at
>>http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en
>>It was not a particularly joyful experience.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>-- JK
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