Fedora News Updates #1

[T. Ribbrock]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:07:56PM +0000, Philip Wyett wrote:
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> http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/hack.html

> Originally written by Mike Harris of Red Hat. This is the best way to
> setup and have a 'user' rpmbuild environment.

Hm... Nice, but I like this approach better:

groupadd src
cd /usr/src/redhat
chgrp -R src *
chmod -R g+w *
find . -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;

Presto, common user build area, usable by any user that is a member of
the "src" group. No changes to rpm's setup required. Only downside: You
might need to redo the last four steps after updating rpm itself, as it
resets the permissions on those directories (at least it used to).

Cheerio,

Thomas
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