Mark Haney wrote:
The SPEC files and tarballs need to be in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and /usr/src/redhat/BUILD (I think) in order to build properly. You might get away with having it in other locations, but I like following the normal conventions for that.
Tbh Mark, assuming you're using root to build in those locations, it's very easy for a badly written SPEC or even simply a mistake in the SPEC, to dump files on your system during the build process causing all sorts of havoc. Building as an ordinary user is very simple. Install rpmdevtools from the repo and simply run 'fedora-buildrpmtree' as the user you wish to use and it'll create the structure needed under the directory rpmbuild in your homespace. You can then build rpms as the ordinary user and even rpm -ivh src rpms.
-- Ian Chapman.
