rpm package building as non-root

[Warren Togami]

T. E. Pickering wrote:
> THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!!
> 
> i've been fishing around for something like this for a while, but
> never quite got the 'round-to-its enough to set it up for myself.
> works quite brilliantly. 
> 
> maybe fedora could put those .rpmrc and .rpmmacro files and the
> ~/rpmbuild hierarchy in /etc/skel so that newly created users will be
> good to go right off the bat.  
> 
> tim
> 

The default .rpmmacros is somewhat okay because it is very small, but 
regular users totally don't need the ~/rpmbuild hierarchy.  It would be 
wasteful and even confusing to create it by default.

Instead I believe we should distribute tools that setup this environment 
like fedora-buildrpmtree, which sets up .rpmmacros and the rpmbuild 
hierarchy when invoked.  We should also include many of the other 
fedora-* tools from the fedora.us "fedora-rpmdevtools" package within 
one of the base Development packages in Core.

https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1167
Here is the current development toward the next release of 
fedora-rpmdevtools.  Please contribute your own useful tools and/or 
fixes to existing tools.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com