Currently kdebase.spec does some nasty trick by linking buildroot faces -> /usr/share/faces and then linking apps/kdm/pics/users -> ../../../faces. This seems to fail for non-root (due to some obscure "symlink-relativisation" problem).
Anyway, I tried to comment out this: #cd %buildroot/%_datadir #ln -s /usr/share/faces ./faces # Link KDM images directory to faces directory rm -fr %buildroot/%_datadir/apps/kdm/pics/users/ ( cd %buildroot/%_datadir/apps/kdm/pics ln -s ../../../faces/ ./users ) and it appears RPM now does not care about dangling link and correctly includes apps/kdm/pics/users even when destination does not exist. So it appears you do not need this trick, at least on cooker. This also allows clean non-root build as far as I can tell. -andrej
