I always thought that was a bad deal to have to be root to rebuild the rpms too. Thanks for the info on how to set it up non root. -Darren On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 22:57, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 21 April 2003 09:24 pm, Darren R. Weber wrote: > > Michael, > > > > I didn't really see anyone answer this directly for you. If you > > already know then I appologise. > > That's OK, it wasn't my question. ;) > I was just clarifying the link to the sourceforge site for whichcd. > > > I don't know all the ins and outs of rpms but usually for a source rpm > > like you mentioned you can just run: > > "rpmbuild --rebuild filename.src.rpm" > > run it as root then if you check in the /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 > > directory you will find the compiled rpm. > > You really shouldn't build RPMs as root. It's just an invitation for > disaster. Settting up a non root rpm build environment is simple, and > will save you when you make a mistake in a spec file that results in an > 'rm -rf /' > > Instructions and a script to set it up: > http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/hack.html > > - -- > - -Michael > > pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt > Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ > - -- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+pK+hn/07WoAb/SsRAvUzAJ9U41YvmukX2kg6kuxA3DBy9kXS+gCfQjWw > tb6dv+1NqVwzsLaavUqhhD0= > =lVAJ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darren R. Weber weberdr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP Key available at: http://www.keyserver.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
