How to set the rpmbuild destination folder

Question

I noticed rpmbuild (-bb and --buildroot options) creates the .rpm in different locations depending of what OS are you using:

• GNU/Linux Ubuntu <= 9.04: /usr/src/

Answer 1

For me the solution was to set _topdir to a subdirectory called rpmbuild inside my project. I also set a few macros, to control the .rpm path:

rpm:
rpmbuild -bb package.spec -D "_topdir $(shell pwd)/rpmbuild"  -D "SRC $(shell pwd)" -D "NAME $(NAME)" -D "ARCH $(ARCH)" -D "VERSION $(VERSION)" -D "RELEASE $(RELEASE)"
mv rpmbuild/RPMS/$(ARCH)/$(NAME)-$(VERSION)-$(RELEASE).$(ARCH).rpm ./
rm -rf rpmbuild

Then I use make to generate the .rpm file and move it. I prefer rpmbuild to operate inside its directory.

make rpm

package.spec is using these macros, e.g.

Name:           %{NAME_PACKAGE}