improvement to install.sh, was: topdir

[Richard Siddall]

Jos Vos wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:46:26AM -0500, Steven Osborn wrote:
> 
>> I'm running rpmbuild from a script, is there anyway to tell rpmbuild to 
>> use an rpmmacro file I specify?  I see how to specify my own spec file, 
>> but  that's not exactly doing the trick.
> 
> A trick you can use is set $HOME to some temp dir, in which you
> generate dynamically the .rpmmacros you wish.
> 

Julian,

The above e-mail was just posted to the RPM discussion list and contains 
a technique MailScanner's install.sh script might use to avoid modifying 
the user's .rpmmacros, namely setting $HOME to a temp dir and writing 
the install.sh .rpmmacros in there.

If it's generally possible to do this, it might make running the install 
script less intrusive.

Regards,

	Richard Siddall