-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 May 2003 11:03 pm, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 21:41, Michael Fratoni wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > What you are trying to do is possible. (and you have done it > > correctly) > > It was an accident - I promise it won't happen again. <grin> > > (I don't like building rpms as root, but that's another rant.) > > Really? I know little about the reasons yet. I'd expect, just as I > have to be root to install an rpm file, I'd need to be root to make one > - I'm messing with system files aren't I? (To install a kernel > anyway.) Normally, you don't have to be root to build rpms. You can just set up a non root rpm build environment in your home directory. In the case of the kernel and generating an rpm using the kernel source in /usr/src/linux-2.4... things are a little more complicated. - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+szP4n/07WoAb/SsRAm0GAKCG05EbHdX6esoFpNAeI/zeabDUDgCfWSCd DjmkjumeJ1YUkKXywKqqPKg= =52Kk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
