how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

[Gordon Messmer]

On 05/15/2010 09:14 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 15 May 2010, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> You really shouldn't be playing with source RPMs as root.  Look in your
>> user RPM sandbox:
>
> Then I'd suggest that doing so as a user be made possible.  I think its
> asinine that I am prevented from building my kernels as a user, simply
> because mkinird cannot be made to run if you are not root.

The last time I checked, building as a user was possible.  mkinitrd 
should be done at install time, not during the build of the package.