[fedora-india] How to override RPM macro

Lakshmipathi.G lakshmipathi.g at gmail.com
Fri Dec 31 14:05:00 UTC 2010


Thanks Saurabh and Sathya. It worked after adding it  to ~/.rpmmacros :)
{ Earlier I edited ~/.rpmmacros  as %sbindir instead of %_sbindir  }


On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Lakshmipathi.G <lakshmipathi.g at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi -
> I'm trying this for almost 4 hrs now - Still not getting it.
>
> I need to override the rpm macro _sbindir from /usr/sbin something like
> "/opt/sbin"  (I don't want to override default prefix "/usr" )
>
> I tried adding it in ~/macro or editing /usr/lib/rpm/macro - nothing seems
> to work for me.
>
> not even from command line -
> #rpm --define '_sbindir /opt'
> # rpm --eval '%_sbindir'
> /usr/sbin
>
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
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> Cheers,
> Lakshmipathi.G
> FOSS Programmer.
> www.giis.co.in
>



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Cheers,
Lakshmipathi.G
FOSS Programmer.
www.giis.co.in
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