Building From SRPMs

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 25.04.2004 schrieb Jwp um 00:38:

> 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


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