On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 14:07:37 -0500 (EST), 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. > > On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > On Friday 27 June 2003 11:54, Mike Burger wrote: > > > As root, you would usually run "rpmbuild name-of.src.rpm" > > > > > > Alternatively, you could use "rpm -i name-of.src.rpm" to install the > > > src.rpm, then go to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS, and run "rpmbuild -ba > > > package-name.spec". Either way, the resulting binary RPMs will be > > > placed in the /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 directory (could also be i686 > > > or some such, but most likely in hte i386 subdirectory). > > > > Please note, building rpms as root is a big nono. > > > > Building RPM packages as a non-root user: > > ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/hacks/ Why not put: [admin@xxx admin]$ cat .rpmmacros %_topdir /home/admin/rpms %_tmppath %{_topdir}/tmp in a non-root account and create the standard rpm structure underneath: [admin@xxx admin]$ d rpms total 36K drwxrwxr-- 9 admin admin 4.0K Apr 8 15:10 ./ drwx------ 34 admin admin 4.0K Jun 27 15:15 ../ drwxrwxr-- 2 admin admin 4.0K Jun 27 09:45 BUILD/ drwxrwxr-- 6 admin admin 4.0K Apr 8 16:03 RPMS/ drwxrwxr-- 2 admin admin 4.0K Jun 27 09:41 SOURCES/ drwxrwxr-- 2 admin admin 4.0K Jun 27 09:44 SPECS/ drwxrwxr-- 2 admin admin 4.0K Jun 10 10:31 SRPMS/ drwxrwxr-- 3 admin admin 4.0K Jun 20 23:18 TARBALLS/ drwxrwxr-- 2 admin admin 4.0K Jun 27 09:44 tmp/ Then one can build rpms all day long as non-root.
