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 # Description
 The tools that are used to display a custom composable motd on login in SCITAS clusters.
 
 # Build RPM 
 Recipe to build the RPM, the tag with the version number must exist!
 
 ```bash
 export VERSION=0.1
-mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,BUILDROOT,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
-git archive --prefix=scitas-motd-scripts-$VERSION/ -o ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/scitas-motd-scripts-$VERSION.tar.gz $VERSION
-cp scitas-motd-scripts.spec ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/
-rpmbuild -bb ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/scitas-motd-scripts.spec
+export TOPDIR="$(pwd)/rpmbuild"
+mkdir -p $TOPDIR/{BUILD,BUILDROOT,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
+git archive --prefix=scitas-motd-scripts-$VERSION/ -o $TOPDIR/SOURCES/scitas-motd-scripts-$VERSION.tar.gz $VERSION
+cp scitas-motd-scripts.spec $TOPDIR/SPECS/
+rpmbuild --define "_topdir $TOPDIR"   -bb $TOPDIR/SPECS/scitas-motd-scripts.spec
 ```