how to get a specfile from an RPM

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Thu Aug 16 04:22:13 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 17:09 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> I consider working with RPMs to be a root thing so it would never
> occur to me to try to build rpms as a normal user. I can't see how
> they wold ever install correctly.

You're not "installing" when you *build* RPMs, you're just playing with
files.  All you need is to be able to write to the spaces that you're
currently working with.

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