[expert] build rpm as a non-root user under

2002-02-17 Thread Nguyen Hung.Takeshi
Sorry all, this may be offtopic ... RPM in redhat 7.1 seems different from mandkrake. In redhat only root can build rpm in /usr/src/redhat . How can I build rpm as a non-root user? TIA Nguyen Hung Vu -- Takeshi's small space http://donganh16.tk/ Join KDE-i18n-Vi? http://vi.i18n.kde.org

Re: [expert] build rpm as a non-root user under

2002-02-17 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:38:35 -0500 Nguyen Hung.Takeshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Sorry all, this may be offtopic ... RPM in redhat 7.1 seems different from mandkrake. In redhat only root can build rpm in /usr/src/redhat . How can I build rpm as a non-root

Re: [expert] build rpm as a non-root user under

2002-02-17 Thread Nguyen Hung.Takeshi
daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:38:35 -0500 Nguyen Hung.Takeshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: spake or spkeak ? :) you can't. that is a root user function. to attempt to change this would break things and also alert all the tree gnomes that

Re: [expert] build rpm as a non-root user under

2002-02-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:38:35 -0500, Nguyen Hung.Takeshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry all, this may be offtopic ... RPM in redhat 7.1 seems different from mandkrake. In redhat only root can build rpm in /usr/src/redhat . Mandrake builds RPMs in /usr/src/RPM. How can I build rpm as a

Re: [expert] build rpm as a non-root user under

2002-02-17 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 23:40:27 -0500 Nguyen Hung.Takeshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:38:35 -0500 Nguyen Hung.Takeshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: spake or spkeak ? :) spake...

Re: [expert] build rpm as a non-root user under

2002-02-17 Thread udo rader
hmm, although this is no redhat mailing-list (we are talking ***mandrake*** here - imagine!!), rpm is a common tool available in mandrake, too, and so I'll try an answer: you can for sure build rpms as a normal user as long as - you have sufficient write-permissions where you want to build (and