Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Niels Basjes <Niels@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Two RPM building improvements: > > Two _unrelated_ RPM building improvements squashed in one commit. > >> - Building the RPMs can now be done by a non-root user. > > It was always possible, you only have to configure rpm / rpmbuild, > namely put path to where you want your RPM_BUILDING directory in > ~/.rpmmacros as %_topdir, for example: > > $ cat ~/.rpmmacros > %_topdir /home/local/builddir > > Please RTFM first, before going to solve non-problem in (ugh) fairly > complicated way. That might be a bit too harsh to somebody who genuinely wished to share his improvement with others. Being RPM novice, the first thing I asked around immediately after taking the maintainership over was the ~/.rpmmacros trick. We really should mention it in _our_ documentation, even just a sentence or two would be sufficient. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
