On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Michael A. Peters wrote: > On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 00:26, Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 06:38:11PM -0400, Jwp wrote: > > ... > > > > > Should this be done as Root or a Regular user? > > ... > > > > Better rpmbuild as an unprivileged user. See i.e. > > > > http://freshrpms.net/docs/fight/ > > ... > > > > > > Thanks Alexander, > > > But it begs the question, why is it that /usr/src/redhat/* are all owned by > > > root? When building from an SRPM as an unprivileged user I do not have the > > > needed permissions to write to these locations. > > > > > > In the meantime I have made /usr/src/redhat/* world writeable and I am > > > building as a normal user. > > > > In general source code should be managed by the system administrator. > > Better for source code to be managed by the builder, whether or not he > is system administrator. > > Create a file called ~/.rpmmacros > > In that file have the following content: > > ---------------------------------------------- > %_topdir %(/bin/echo $HOME)/rpm > %_tmppath %{_topdir}/tmp > ---------------------------------------------- > > Then - recreate the /usr/src/redhat directory structure inside ~/rpm > I'm surprised to se this thread go this long without anyone mentioning Michael Fratoni's rpm_environment script. It sets up a whole build tree in your home directory, and includes some nice features like organizing sources into subdirectories by package and keeping the specfiles with the sources. http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/hack.html -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
