Darren R. Weber said: > On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 22:57, Michael Fratoni wrote: >> >> On Monday 21 April 2003 09:24 pm, Darren R. Weber wrote: >> 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 >> > 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 Interesting. I had heard of it before, but this is much easier to set up than I had imagined. One thing, though, is there a way to make tarballs work with this environment? For example, I use Leafnode, which is distributed as a tar.bz2 file. The author does included a spec file, so I can just do: # rpmbuild -tb leafnode-<version>.tar.bz2 When trying as a user now I get: [whooper@xxxxxxxx whooper]$ rpmbuild -tb /harddrive2/storage/downloads/linux/leafnode-1.9.37.rel.tar.bz2 error: Failed to rename /home/whooper/rpmbuild/SOURCES/%{name}-%{version}/rpm-spec.3oomkl to /home/whooper/rpmbuild/SOURCES/%{name}-%{version}/rpm-spec.3oomkl: No such file or directory: No such file or directory [whooper@xxxxxxxx whooper]$ On a related note, why are the RPM-List archives only available to subscribers? -- William Hooper
