On Aug 10, 2007, at 3:21 PM, James Olin Oden wrote:

> On 8/10/07, Anders F Björklund <afb@algonet.se> wrote:
>>
>> After first getting "bitten" in RPM 4.4.9 by the fact that
>> ${prefix}/var/spool/repackage wasn't created by the install,
>> but was still *mandatory* for the default package erasure
>> to work (since %_repackage_all_erasures defaults to 1 now);
>>
>> When upgrading to RPM 5.0 CVS I now find that it has been
>> moved to the development directory (%{_topdir}) instead...
>> Although I do agree that hardcoding /var/spool/repackage
>> is bad, I had placed %{_topdir} in the developer category.
>>
> That sounds like a bad place to me.  Personally though I simply put it
> where I want it to be based on storage available.  Your right though
> that is a bad default.   The old one as far as defaults go at least
> made sense.
>

The choice _IS_ a bad place for default, but is certainly configurable.

The default will almost certainly get changed. There's certainly lots of
reasons _NOT_ to change locations arbitrarily in order to "drop in" on
new ports with alternative prefixes.

73 de Jeff