On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 23:14, Michael Fratoni wrote: > 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. I can accept I don't need to be root to build rpms, but how often is it useful? An rpm is usually to install some software, and most of that seems to need to be root. Or am I displaying my naivete? Bret
