On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 09:32:41 -0800 Stephen Walton <stephen.walton@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 09:25, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: Unfortunately, the only > way around using root for "rpmbuild", as far as I can tell, is to do > "chmod -R user:user /usr/src". Which I do myself, actually, but I am > not sure of all the implications. > There is a package called fedora-rpmdevtools in fedora.us stable (i think) it is a collection of the following scripts: fedora-buildrpmtree fedora-newrpmspec fedora-rpmvercmp fedora-installdevkeys fedora-pkgannfmt fedora-unrpm fedora-kmodhelper fedora-rmdevelrpms fedora-wipebuildtree fedora-md5 fedora-rpmchecksig Pretty self explanatory. Just create a new user like 'fedora' and run fedora-buildrpmtree and it will make a ~/rpmbuild folder with SPECS/SOURCE/, etc. newrpmspec is pretty handy to generate a new spec file and whipebuiltree will clean out the whole directory. hope that helps
