The Build Environment

• RPM expects certain files to be in certain places during the build process:

  • /usr/src/redhat/SPECS - contains .spec files
  • /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES - contains source code and patches
  • /usr/src/redhat/BUILD - used by RPM as a temporary directory for building the package
  • /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS - where RPM outputs src.rpm files
  • /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/{i386,alpha,sparc,noarch} - where RPM outputs architecture-specific binary .rpm files