Re: rpm as non root user

Hi,

   Thanks all, I've now got it working.

The problem was that I was missing the "s" in the filename rpmmacros.

Adam



On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Tony Earnshaw wrote:

> Adam Miller skrev, on 18-12-2007 20:08:
>
>>   I'm trying to allow a non root user build rpms and having a bit of 
>> trouble.
>> 
>> created ~/.rpmmacros
>> 
>> %packager testlscsoft
>
> [...]
>
>> %_topdir /home/testlscsoft
>
> All the rest is crap, set it up properly.
>
> Try it out!
>
> Below %_topdir should be the five necessary main directories/architectures 
> (and even then, not even the architecture is necessary).
>
> [...]
>
>> %_rpmtopdir /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat
>> %_builddir /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/BUILD
>> %_rpmdir /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/RPMS
>> %_sourcedir /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
>> %_specdir /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/SPECS
>> %_srcrpmdir /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/SRPMS
>> %_tmppath /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/var/tmp
>> %_buildroot /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/var/tmp/%{name}-root
>> 
>> 
>> created dir structures
>> 
>> /home/testlscsoft
>> /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat
>> /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/BUILD
>> /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/RPMS
>> /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
>> /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/SPECS
>> /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/SRPMS
>> /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/var/tmp
>> 
>> 
>> installed src rpm
>> 
>> rpm --root /home/testlscsoft/ -Uvh lscsoft-user-env-1.12-1.src.rpm
>> 
>> 
>> fails when running rpmbuild
>> 
>> rpmbuild --root /home/testlscsoft/ -ba 
>> /home/testlscsoft/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/lscsoft-user-env.spec
>> error: File /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/lscsoft-user-env-1.12.tar.gz: No such 
>> file or directory
>
> --Tonni
>
>