diff -Nru rpm-5.1.6.orig/macros.in rpm-5.1.6/macros.in
--- rpm-5.1.6.orig/macros.in	2008-10-16 13:43:54.000000000 +0200
+++ rpm-5.1.6/macros.in	2009-01-01 18:02:46.000000000 +0100
@@ -895,7 +895,7 @@
 
 #	The "transactional rollback" directory in which erased packages will
 #	be saved when using the --repackage option.
-%_repackage_dir		%{_var}/spool/repackage
+%_repackage_dir		%{_var}/tmp
 
 #	A path (i.e. URL) prefix that is pre-pended to %{_repackage_dir}.
 %_repackage_root	%{nil}
@@ -1296,15 +1296,15 @@
 %_sbindir		%{_exec_prefix}/sbin
 %_libexecdir		%{_exec_prefix}/libexec
 %_datadir		%{_prefix}/share
-%_sysconfdir		%{_prefix}/etc
+%_sysconfdir		/etc
 %_sharedstatedir	%{_prefix}/com
-%_localstatedir		%{_prefix}/var
+%_localstatedir		/var
 %_lib			lib
 %_libdir		%{_exec_prefix}/%{_lib}
 %_includedir		%{_prefix}/include
 %_oldincludedir		/usr/include
-%_infodir		%{_prefix}/info
-%_mandir		%{_prefix}/man
+%_infodir		%{_datadir}/info
+%_mandir		%{_datadir}/man
 %_localedir		%{_datadir}/locale
 
 #==============================================================================