---------- Original Message ----------- From: "William Hooper" <whooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:05:39 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: How to install source rpm's on redhat 9 > 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]$ > ------- End of Original Message ------- Try rpmbuild -bb leafnode.spec file while in ~/rpms/SPECS (and with the tarball source in ~/rpms/SOURCES) assuming you have [root@xxx postfix]# cat /home/xx/.rpmmacros %_topdir /home/xx/rpms %_tmppath %{_topdir}/tmp [root@xxx postfix]# You may have to edit leafnode.spec to point to the correct version. I do this all the time without error in a non-root account.
