Re: rpm as non root user

[Tony Earnshaw <tonni hetnet nl>]

Adam Miller skrev, on 18-12-2007 20:08:

>   I'm trying to allow a non root user build rpms and having a bit of 
> trouble.
>
> created ~/.rpmmacros
>
> %packager testlscsoft

[...]

> %_topdir /home/testlscsoft

All the rest is crap, set it up properly.

Try it out!

Below %_topdir should be the five necessary main 
directories/architectures (and even then, not even the architecture is 
necessary).

[...]

> %_rpmtopdir /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat
> %_builddir /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/BUILD
> %_rpmdir /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/RPMS
> %_sourcedir /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> %_specdir /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> %_srcrpmdir /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/SRPMS
> %_tmppath /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/var/tmp
> %_buildroot /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/var/tmp/%{name}-root
>
>
> created dir structures
>
> /home/testlscsoft
> /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat
> /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/BUILD
> /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/RPMS
> /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/SRPMS
> /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/var/tmp
>
>
> installed src rpm
>
> rpm --root /home/testlscsoft/ -Uvh lscsoft-user-env-1.12-1.src.rpm
>
>
> fails when running rpmbuild
>
> rpmbuild --root /home/testlscsoft/ -ba 
> /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/lscsoft-user-env.spec
> error: File /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/lscsoft-user-env-1.12.tar.gz: No 
> such file or directory

--Tonni

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Tony Earnshaw
Email: tonni at hetnet dot nl