I am making some config packages which are built by Jenkins, then checked out whenever they are needed. The package itself is built and runs fine. My problem right now is the directories that rpmbuild uses for actually building the project. When I call rpmbuild SPECS/package.spec from my working directory, rpmbuild makes a new directory at /home/user/rpmbuild. This was fine when I was running tests but I would rather that I just be able to build from whatever file it is called from for the Jenkins process.
I see online people saying to make a ~/.rpmmacros file to overwrite the $_topdir variable. That approach isn't really working for the Jenkins build. Is there some way to simply call rpmbuild and build in the current directory? The structure is all there and it would work better for what I am trying to do. Thanks.
Yes, just override _topdir directly.
rpmbuild -D '_topdir /new/value/for/_topdir'
or
rpmbuild --define='_topdir /new/value/for/_topdir'
those should be identical but I've learned that they aren't always for some reason (and in quick tests rpm -D '_topdir /opt/tnstmp' --showrc | grep _topdir doesn't show the modified value but rpm --define '_topdir /opt/tnstmp' --showrc | grep _topdir did).