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(a)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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Lakshmipathi.G
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www.giis.co.in
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Cheers,
Lakshmipathi.G
FOSS Programmer.
www.giis.co.in