On Saturday, 18 December 2004, at 17:41:46 (-0500), Gene C. wrote: > Before I submit an RFE on this I thought I would bounce it off this > mailing list ... > > Mike Harris has a setup for building rpms as nonroot -- > ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/hacks/rpmbuild-nonroot-1.0.tar.gz > > Now to me (and I believe many others), the preferred way of building > rpms is NOT as root but as a regular user which is exactly what > Mike's setup does. > > Now my idea for an RFE is to have this capability added (perhaps to > the rpm-build package) as either something in doc (or, with more > work, as a script which, when run, creates the appropriate > directories for a user plus ~/.rpmrc and ~/.rpmmacros). Why not just use a tool like Mezzanine (www.kainx.org/mezzanine/) that handles all those build quirks automatically? The rpm config has an awful lot of inertia behind it. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "[Heather Graham] is the new I-would-run-over-my-best-friend-in-a- hummer-to-get-next-to-her girl." -- Claude Nobler _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
