Hi all, I'm new to this list although I've been building RPMs for a little while now. I have finally decided it's time to build my RPMs as a user other than root -- to try to work out the problems that I previously had with that. The first problem is that according to 'Maximum RPM' I should be able to add a ~/.rpmrc file containing just "topdir:/home/buildbot/rpmbuild", and, so long as I have created the required directories (mkdir ~/rpmbuild && cd ~/rpmbuild && mkdir SPECS SOURCES RPMS SRPMS BUILD), then I should be able to just run 'rpmbuild' and it should all work. It doesn't: I get a complaint about the 'topdir' line in my .rpmrc being invalid. This is on FC5 with rpm-4.4.2-15.2. I found that the only way to build RPMs off-root was to use the suggested .rpmmacros to replace %_topdir with something else. There was a nice little download script on the RPM webpage that looked after all that. But it seems that the manual needs to be updated to explain if/why the .rpmrc approach isn't working, and whether or not that's a Fedora-only issue, or what. Next, my off-root RPM build fails due to 'install -o root -g root' commands. What is the suggested why to have RPMs built for correct root installation if you're not able to use the 'install -o' command during the build? Is that where the %defattr stuff comes into play? Should I not use 'install -o' in RPMs? Finally, my trickiest problem. I have an RPM spec file as shown below that results in a dependency on '/usr/bin/perl5'. I don't have this on my system, so I want to trace back where the dependency is coming from. I suspect that the 'update-mime-database' command in my %pre and %post could be responsible -- how can I check that? Any suggestions on this much appreciated. Cheers John Pye https://pse.cheme.cmu.edu/svn-view/ascend/code/trunk/ascend.spec?rev=633&view=markup -- John Pye PhD student, Mechanical Engineering University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia http://pye.dyndns.org _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
