[Fedora-r-devel-list] R2rpm...

[José Matos]

On Tuesday 12 April 2011 20:10:54 Allen S. Rout wrote:
> 'An error occured at build time, see the log in
> /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/build-R-plyr.spec.log'

Beware that running rpmbuild as root is problematic (been there done that). 
:-)

The easy part is to run it as normal user, either with your account or a new 
account. In order to set the directories layout you can create a ~/.rpmmacros 
files with the new directories.

The easier setup is just:
$ cat ~/.rpmmacros 
%_topdir                /home/<user>/rpmbuild/

with the <user> replaced by the users name.
-- 
José Abílio