Re: RPM Development as non-root

[Michael Jennings <mej kainx org>]

On Tuesday, 03 July 2007, at 09:19:32 (-0400),
Michael Dengler wrote:

>  + /bin/mkdir -p /var/tmp/mezzanine-buildroot.15952/usr/bin
>  /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/tmp/mezzanine-buildroot.15952':
>  Permission denied
> 
>  ...
> 
>  when building as non-root.

Any system on which non-root users cannot write to /var/tmp is
inherently broken.  File a bug against your sysadmin.  :-)

>  I added a new %_tmppath and %_topdir that points to my home dir to
>  ~/.rpmmacros but alas...no joy.

Try setting $MEZZANINE_TMPDIR.  If that doesn't work, use this:

perl -pi -e 's,/var/tmp,/tmp,g' mod/*.pm

Then try again.  Use something else instead of /tmp if you wish.

Michael

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