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Re: rpm suggestion, was: Re: next Beta



Also Sprach E Nigma:
> On Saturday 01 December 2001 20:48, you wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> > 
> > > If you can't wait for the next beta, check out rawhide 
> > > (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide)...
> > 
> > Talking about the next beta:
> > 
> > Is there a chance that the mess in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> 
> The change I'd like is to not put it under /usr at all at all. Doesn't belong 
> there, /usr should be mountable ro.
> 
> Besides, that's owned by root, and most agree root should not be building 
> software. Configure rpm to put the tree somewhere in te user's space.
> 
> That aside, SOURCES shouldn't be a long-term repository for anything. When 
> software's packaged, clean SOURCES. the proper place for WIP is somewhere 
> else.

The recommended way of doing this is using is to set your %_topdir
in ~/.rpmmacros per-user.

The discussion of /usr/src and /usr/src/{redhat,packages,etc}
was recently discussed on the FHS mailing list.

Wil
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