Re: rpmbuild failing

[Ralph Blach <chipper us ibm com>]

Mathew,

In my spec file it is specfied as


BuildRoot: /var/tmp/basesystem-root

So, it is not very flexiable.

Chip

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 08:41:40AM -0500, Ralph Blach wrote:
>
> > yes buildroot is set in the .spec file, but the problem is that 
> > buildroot as specified belongs to root, and I wnat to build as non root
>
>
> Really? That should be fixed in the specfile if possible -- the buildroot
> should almost always be something like:
>
> %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)