[RESOLVED] - rpmbuild and directory of SOURCES

[warron.french]

I have created under my RPM building account (build) a subdirectory called CFirefox.

I have created a shell script to wrap around the process of creating Custom Firefox builds so that I can control where the Firefox application resides because sometimes we have technology constraints that require installing an older version of Firefox somewhere else; like /opt instead of /usr for example.

I have gotten everything prototyped every step of the way, and I am pretty happy with the challenges that I overcame and worked around.

I even use a here file script to create my firefox.spec under the directory /home/build/CFirefox/rpmbuild/SPECS.
I get my Source0 (firefox67-67.0.2.tar.xz) created in /home/build/CFirefox/rpmbuild/SOURCES.

The problem is when I execute the rpm creation command:

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rpmbuild -v -ba /home/build/CFirefox/rpmbuild/SPECS/firefox.spec

I get the following error:

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error: File /home/build/rpmbuild/SOURCES/firefox67-67.0.2.tar.xz: No such file or directory

Which is actually true. But can't I specify a path-prefix in front of the line for Source0 to tell rpmbuild where to find the Source0 referenced file?

The line in question looks like this, as it is broken:

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Source0:       firefox67-67.0.2.tar.xz

I also tried this:

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Source0:       /home/build/CFirefox/rpmbuild/SOURCES/firefox67-67.0.2.tar.xz

Does the entire rpmbuild directory structure have to be moved up directly under my user's homedir?

[TrevorH]

Does the entire rpmbuild directory structure have to be moved up directly under my user's homedir?

That would be the easiest solution.

You can also use ~/.rpmmacros amending the following content to suit:

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%_topdir /home/trevor/rpmbuild
%_tmppath %{_topdir}/tmp

%_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}
%packager <your.email@company.com>

[warron.french]

Oh wow. OK.

Thanks. I will just remove my CFirefox reference and handle accordingly.

Thanks TrevorH.