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There is now some easy to read documentation about conditional builds available at the rpm.org wiki.

Since I started packaging, I was always annoyed by rpmbuild’s demand for it’s strange directory structure for input and output files. Therefore I wrote this little script to get a rpmbuild that uses the current directory for all these directories. Maybe there is one missing, because a recent rpm version now uses a BUILDROOT directory. Maybe one can define _buildrootdir for this, but I did not yet have any need for it.


$ cat rpmbuild-currentdir.sh
#! /bin/bash

/usr/bin/rpmbuild –define “_sourcedir .” –define “_rpmdir .” –define “_buildir .” –define “_srcrpmdir .” –define “_speccdir .” “$@”