Re: Is dist-git a good place for work?

[José Abílio Matos]

On Monday, 4 May 2020 16.41.26 WEST Richard Shaw wrote:
> One thing that really bugs me is there's still a catch-22. When you're
> working on a new package there is no "git" to work with. I used to just
> install all the -devel packages and work with rpmbuild directly but you
> have to override the default:
>
> rpmbuild/{BUILD,BUILDROOT,SPECS,SOURCES,RPMS,SRPMS} mess
>
> For the longest time I at least overrode it so it wouldn't mix everything
> together by putting the package name in the mix: rpmbuild/<pkg>/...

So did I, for the last 16 years I have in ~/.rpmmacros

%_topdir                /home/jamatos/rpm/
%_rpmtopdir             %{_topdir}/build/%{?name:%name}
%_sourcedir             %{_rpmtopdir}
%_specdir               %{_rpmtopdir}
%_rpmdir                %{_rpmtopdir}
%_srcrpmdir             %{_rpmtopdir}