Re: RPM Development as non-root

[Michael Jennings <mej kainx org>]

On Thursday, 28 June 2007, at 13:00:46 (-0400),
Michael Dengler wrote:

>  We have a build machine that I want to use to build rpms. The
>  Sysadmin's for this build machine are adamant that all build tools
>  must be kept separate from the OS and it root fs.
> 
>  example: If ant is needed to build some java packages, the ant
>  source package is retrieved from a mounted repository, temporarily
>  installed to a custom location, ant builds the project and then ant
>  is uninstalled.
> 
>  I need to emulate this behaviour with rpmbuild but am having a lot
>  of difficulties.
> 
>  Is there a way to install rpmbuild to a temporary, isolated
>  location, use it to build some rpms, then remove it?

http://beta.kainx.org/wiki/view/Mezzanine
http://beta.kainx.org/articles/6

Michael

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