Building From SRPMs

Jwp live4bacon at optonline.net
Sat Apr 24 22:57:27 UTC 2004


> > Thanks Alexander,
> > But it begs the question, why is it that /usr/src/redhat/* are all owned
> by
> > root?  When building from an SRPM as an unprivileged user I do not have
> the
> > needed permissions to write to these locations.
> 
> Well, the rpm-build package could come with a normal user for building
> RPMs. But it constructs the /usr/src/redhat directory hierarchy.
> 
> > In the meantime I have made /usr/src/redhat/* world writeable and I am
> > building as a normal user.
> 
> The documentation explains how to copy the /usr/src/redhat structure to
> a user's home, change the permissions and set up a user .rpmmacros file.
> 
> > Thanks,
> > JWP
> 
> Alexander

Thanks again!  

Off to do some reading,
JP





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