Thanks Saurabh and Sathya. It worked after adding it to ~/.rpmmacros :) <br>{ Earlier I edited ~/.rpmmacros as %sbindir instead of %_sbindir }<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Lakshmipathi.G <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lakshmipathi.g@gmail.com">lakshmipathi.g@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi -<br>I'm trying this for almost 4 hrs now - Still not getting it.<br><br>I need to override the rpm macro _sbindir from /usr/sbin something like "/opt/sbin" (I don't want to override default prefix "/usr" )<br>
<br>I tried adding it in ~/macro or editing /usr/lib/rpm/macro - nothing seems to work for me.<br><br>not even from command line -<br>#rpm --define '_sbindir /opt' <br># rpm --eval '%_sbindir'<br>/usr/sbin<br>
<br><br>Thanks for any help.<br><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>----<br>Cheers,<br>Lakshmipathi.G<br>FOSS Programmer.<br><a href="http://www.giis.co.in" target="_blank">www.giis.co.in</a><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>----<br>Cheers,<br>Lakshmipathi.G<br>FOSS Programmer.<br><a href="http://www.giis.co.in">www.giis.co.in</a><br>