Re: RPM Development as non-root

[Michael Jennings <mej kainx org>]

On Thursday, 28 June 2007, at 14:47:20 (-0400),
Michael Dengler wrote:

>  Thanks for the replies. I've checked out the suggestions and both sound like
>  they will get the job done except:
> 
>  mock needs to be installed to do the job...sysadmins won't allow it.
> 
>  same goes for mezzanine.

Check out Mezzanine from CVS:

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs anoncvs caoslinux org:/var/cvs co mezzanine

Then run "make" to create an RPM.  The RPM can be installed into your
home directory using "rpm2cpio mezzanine*.rpm | cpio -iuvd"

Just put $HOME/usr/bin in your path (or "mv $HOME/usr/bin $HOME/bin"
and put $HOME/bin in your path) and add the appropriate perl directory
($HOME/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 or something similar) to your
$PERL5LIB environment variable.

Michael

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