building own RPMs

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Sun Dec 26 20:22:32 UTC 2004


On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:08:01 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.xxx> wrote:
> 
> > It would be adequate to refuse to run as root, perhaps with an override 
> > switch for some old kernel packages that insist on being built as root 
> > (because they have mknod invocations).
> 
> Throw in a small helper script that sets up a rpmbuild environment in the
> users home dir (create some directories, add %_topdir to ~/.rpmmacros) on
> request, and you're set.

http://fedoraproject.org/pre-extras/3/

$ rpm -qf $(which fedora-buildrpmtree)
fedora-rpmdevtools-0.2.0-1

Ralf might enjoy reading the header of the script. ;)




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