Bryan White <bryan@arcamax.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Don't do the rpmbuild as root.
> I think I have it solved now. I am not to familiar with the process of
> building from source RPMs. You said to not do it as root but that meant
> I did not have write access to /usr/src/redhat.
Well, nobody at Red Hat builds RPMs in /usr/src/redhat anymore ;-).
The setup I use involves creating a directory ~/rpmwork, making
these subdirectories in it:
BUILD/ RPMS/ SOURCES/ SPECS/ SRPMS/
and making a file ~/.rpmmacros containing just
%_topdir /home/tgl/rpmwork
(adjust to suit where your work dir actually is of course). To build,
copy the SRPM into the SRPMS subdirectory, cd there, and go
rpmbuild --rebuild srpmfilename
The only part you need root for is actually installing the built RPMs
(which end up under the RPMS directory of course).
regards, tom lane
