rpm package building as non-root (was: Re: src.rpm standards)

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 02:02, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> 
> >Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:40:55 +0100
> >From: Daniel Roesen <dr at cluenet.de>
> >To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
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> >List-Id: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
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> >Subject: Re: rpm package building as non-root  (was: Re: src.rpm standards)
> >
> >On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:11:05AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> >> I've got a tarball with stuff in it for people to get started 
> >> building rpms with this approach, with a similar config to mine, 
> >> located at:
> >> 
> >> 	ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/hacks   rpmbuild-nonroot*
> >
> >Hm, this looks wrong:
> >
> >%_tmppath       %{_topdir}/tmp
> >%_buildroot     %{_topdir}/%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
> >
> >I think the "%{_topdir}/" in the second line is too much.
> 
> Ah yes, a bug fixed long ago in my local config (which is 
> harmless BTW), but nobody noticed it in the rpmbuild-nonroot 
> before including me.  ;o)
> 
> Thanks for pointing it out.
> 
> 

Thanks Mike. I have been handrolling my own .rpm stuff for a while
because I couldnt remember who had this stuff. I think a couple of
website links to that tar-ball would help people googling for answers
also.

I am going to dig through this to see if there are any other items to
change :).

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> OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat
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