Matthew East wrote:
use http://erizo.ucdavis.edu/~dmk/notes/RPMs/Creating_RPMs.html as a guide for how to build rpm packages as normal user.Yes in the README file with the kernel source it underlines that one should compile as user, and then su to install. But I was using the command "make rpm" as I thought that if I didn't install the kernel as an rpm, then it might cause difficulties for the other rpm packages which depended on the kernel. The "make rpm" command seems to require you to be root, possibly (I'm no expert) as it uses the /usr/src/redhat area.
ps1: %_topdir is enough to build rpm. the %_tmppath is just a security addon.
ps2: i have never succeeded in building rpm of non-modular kernels. "make rpm" fails while triyng the " make modules " part.
