On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The fix for this is to remove (patch out) the "-o httpd" option from the > install section of the Makefile (the chown won't work as a non-root user, > and RPMs should always be built as non-root users), and instead use %attr in > the spec file's %files section to indicate that the installed file should be Thanks! I hadn't seen the reply earlier - probably due to the odd reply-to settings in the list). This is the same conclusion I came to. For tools other software tools that expect to chown from within their Makefile, this is probably a bit awkward. > This method will mean that you don't need to buildrequire httpd too Yes. Removed that one too. thanks! martin -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
