centos7.9 upgrade 4.11 to 4.14.1

[devil-ming]

My all operation is in the container
os：CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)
rpm version: RPM version 4.11.3

yum -y install centos-release nss-devel nspr-devel file-devel popt-devel libarchive-devel lua-devel autoconf automake libtool zstd
wget http://ftp.rpm.org/releases/rpm-4.14.x/rpm-4.14.3.tar.bz2 && tar -xvjf rpm-4.14.3.tar.bz2
cd rpm-4.14.3
./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install
ldconfig

When I finished the upgrade, I could see the rpm version changed to 4.14.3

before upgrade

# rpm --showrc | wc -l
1052
# rpm --eval "%{dist}"
.el7

after upgrade

# rpm --showrc | wc -l
556
# rpm --eval "%{dist}"
%{dist}

and I found that the Macro path was different.

before upgrade

Macro path: /usr/lib/rpm/macros:/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.*:/usr/lib/rpm/platform/%{_target}/macros:/usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/*.attr:/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/macros:/etc/rpm/macros.*:/etc/rpm/macros:/etc/rpm/%{_target}/macros:~/.rpmmacros

after upgrade

Macro path: /usr/lib/rpm/macros:/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.*:/usr/lib/rpm/platform/%{_target}/macros:/usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/*.attr:/usr/lib/rpm/unknown/macros:/usr/etc/rpm/macros.*:/usr/etc/rpm/macros:/usr/etc/rpm/%{_target}/macros:~/.rpmmacros

I exec the following action

# ls /usr/etc/rpm
ls: cannot access /usr/etc/rpm: No such file or director
# cp -r /etc/rpm /usr/etc

I still fail when I execute some rpmbuild

[pmatilai]

./configure --prefix=/usr

This isn't how rpm on Centos is configured, so it's no wonder it doesn't work.

Updating the system rpm beyond what the distro offers, you really need to know what you're doing. And updating beyond the original major.minor branch is not recommended even then.