[PlanetCCRMA] Building rpms...

[Lamar Owen]

On Sunday 31 January 2010 03:40:25 am Simon Lewis wrote:
> I agree with you - unfortunately I have been unable to find a procedure
> written for the "normal user" how to make an rpm sandbox in the HOME
> directory. There was a neat article in Linux User at the end of last
> year with an example based on openSUSE, but I could not get the same
> procedure to work on Fedora 12.

Install the 'rpmdevtools' package (as root, of course) and run the rpmdev-
setuptree script as the user you want to build as.  This sets up the tree 
properly and sets up the rpmbuild macros properly for building as a normal 
user.

See a couple of HOWTOs:
http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2009/02/05/building-rpms-as-a-normal-user/
http://www.thenerdshow.com/indexe9ba.html?page=rpmsign