On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 09:30:24AM +0200, Juergen Vigna wrote:
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> On 16-Aug-2001 Zvezdan Petkovic wrote:
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> > That way my rpm shell script is executed when I type rpm ...
> > It adds my rpmrc file, and it adds my macros file. Hence the topdir and
> > tmppath get changed to my directories and I can build as a regular user.
>
> I did this but then the files in the rpm-package have my user-id and group-id
> instead of root:root (or whatever it should have) and then on installing
> on systems where I don't have such a user I get warnings about user non
> existing substituting with root and I don't like that warnings. What I do
> is test-build as user (for the same resons as you) but then build the final
> as root.
Debian has a fakeroot command: basically a library LD_PRELOADed to
return uid=0. I expect either it exists also on rpm systems or you can get
it somewhere
>
> Jürgen
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Yves
