[OT] RPM building as non-root (was RE: Victory - built subversion from RH9 source rpm!)

[Robert Hunter <ro...@gen-i.co.nz>]

Steve Cohen wrote:
>> When I started building SRPMS back in Red Hat 5.2 days, I couldn't
>> imagine having to be root to do it, so I asked on the RPM mailing list 
>> and found the black magic for doing it as a mortal. 
>
>That would be changing the ownership of /usr/src/redhat?  Actually, I 
>didn't even have to do that.  I chmodded it to g+w and put myself into 
>the root group.  That also did the job.

All RPM building really needs is a directory structure to write to,
and a one-line entry in ~/.rpmmacros to tell it where that is.

I've included an untested script to demonstrate this process :-)

#!/bin/bash
mkdir ~/rpm
for fulldir in /usr/src/redhat/*
do
	dir=$(basename "$fulldir")
	mkdir ~/rpm/"$dir"
done
cat > ~/.rpmmacrostest << EOT
%_topdir	%(echo ${HOME}/rpm}
%_tmppath	%{$_topdir}/tmp
EOT


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