On Friday 27 June 2003 12:07, Mike Burger wrote: > The problem is that unless you want to change the ownerships and/or > permissions on the /usr/src/redhat directory, you need to have root > privs to recompile .src.rpms, a process which places all of the > necessary files under that subdirectory structure, which is owned by > root.root. Incorrect. You set up your own rpm building tree within your home directory. Mike's tarball has an example .rpmmacros that will help you do this. With a proper ~/.rpmmacros file, rebuilding of rpms will never touch /usr/src/redhat/. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating