Re: RPM Development as non-root

["Michael Dengler" <michael dengler gmail com>]

Thanks all for your valued suggestions.

I finally got this to go.

Here's how:

Installed the rpm development tools to a non-standard location using rpm2cpio:

~/rpm_devel $ rpm2cpio rpm-devel.rpm
 | cpio -iuvd

Modified some macros to point to the correct area (these can be defined in a ~/.rpmmacros file or on the rpmbuild command line):

%define __os_install_post ~/rpm_devel/usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress ~/rpm_devel/usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip
~/rpm_devel/usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-static-archive  ~/rpm_devel/usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note  %{nil}

%define __check_files ~/rpm_devel/usr/lib/rpm/check-files %{buildroot}

%define _topdir ~/rpm_devel/topdir
%define _tmppath ~/rpm_devel/tmp

After all of this I am able to temporarily install rpmbuild to my home dir and build my rpms.

That was painful.

Thanks again for your help.

Mike

On 7/3/07, Michael Jennings <mej kainx org> wrote:

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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