On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:08:01 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > Kenneth Porter <shiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > It would be adequate to refuse to run as root, perhaps with an override > > switch for some old kernel packages that insist on being built as root > > (because they have mknod invocations). > > Throw in a small helper script that sets up a rpmbuild environment in the > users home dir (create some directories, add %_topdir to ~/.rpmmacros) on > request, and you're set. http://fedoraproject.org/pre-extras/3/ $ rpm -qf $(which fedora-buildrpmtree) fedora-rpmdevtools-0.2.0-1 Ralf might enjoy reading the header of the script. ;)