On Friday 27 June 2003 14:18, Mike Vanecek wrote:
> 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.
Thats pretty much exactly whats in mharris' tarball (the .rpmmacros
file). Although he makes a few tweaks that does a somewhat non
standard rpm building environment, which I (and a lot of people) find
to be more sane.
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