rpm package building as non-root (was: Re: src.rpm standards)

[Mike A. Harris]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Daniel Roesen wrote:

>Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:40:55 +0100
>From: Daniel Roesen <dr at cluenet.de>
>To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
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>Subject: Re: rpm package building as non-root  (was: Re: src.rpm standards)
>
>On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:11:05AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>> I've got a tarball with stuff in it for people to get started 
>> building rpms with this approach, with a similar config to mine, 
>> located at:
>> 
>> 	ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/hacks   rpmbuild-nonroot*
>
>Hm, this looks wrong:
>
>%_tmppath       %{_topdir}/tmp
>%_buildroot     %{_topdir}/%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
>
>I think the "%{_topdir}/" in the second line is too much.

Ah yes, a bug fixed long ago in my local config (which is 
harmless BTW), but nobody noticed it in the rpmbuild-nonroot 
before including me.  ;o)

Thanks for pointing it out.


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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat