FC4, FC6, F7 what works, and don't

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 22:54 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Eric Wood wrote:
> > Whoa, stop right there.  If you're missing something at least do an
> > attempt to finding a srpm of the package you need. Google for "fftw
> > srpm".  I came up with
> > http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/packages/fftw3/info.html
> > 
> > I'd try grabbing the
> > http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/fc6/i386/SRPMS.dries/fftw3-3.1.1-1.fc6.rf.src.rpm
> > package install it and build your one rpm like so:
> > 
> > # wget
> > http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/fc6/i386/SRPMS.dries/fftw3-3.1.1-1.fc6.rf.src.rpm
> > # rpm -Uvh fftw3-3.1.1-1.fc6.rf.src.rpm
> 
> Where's the rpm --checksig to verify the gpg sig? :)
> 
> > # cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> > # rpmbuild -bb fftw3
> > # cd ../RPMS  (if the build goes correcting (writing rpm....))
> > # rpm -Uvh ffw3* --test  (hopefully this thing build the -devel rpm
> > simultaneously too).
> 
> It's dangerous to build packages as root.  It's a practice that should
> not be encouraged.  Build as a regular user (not even as your normal
> user account, ideally).  To setup the config and dir structure needed
> to build as a regular user, install the rpmdevtools package and then
> run (as the user you want to build as):
> 
> $ rpmdev-setuptree
> 
> This will create ~/rpmbuild with the needed subdirectories.
I don't understand this. The last time I ran rpmbuild as root I got
warnings like: no bbder found using root instead.
Presumably it will use your user name instead of root if we do the
rpmbuild you way. When you install the rpm is it the fact that rpm runs
as root that allows you install anything.
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