Fedora News Updates #1

Rui Miguel Seabra rms at 1407.org
Wed Jan 7 17:43:06 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 17:32, Stephen Walton wrote:
> I don't know about that specific article, but the one on creating an RPM
> of Acrobat used root for everything as well.  Unfortunately, the only
> way around using root for "rpmbuild", as far as I can tell, is to do
> "chmod -R user:user /usr/src".  Which I do myself, actually, but I am
> not sure of all the implications.

You never heard of

   echo '%_topdir /home/swalton/redhat' >> ~/.rpmmacros

and then 

   cp -r /usr/src/redhat ~/redhat

? :)

-- 
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
+ So let's do it...?

Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments.
See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20040107/05336bfc/attachment-0001.sig>


More information about the fedora-list mailing list