Re: Victory - built subversion from RH9 source rpm!

Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:22 PM -0600 Steve Cohen 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Well, I'm trying it your way now.  I'll let you know how it comes out.

It worked!

>> I've been building SRPMS for years as root without ever knowing that this
>> was frowned upon.  In fact, I always assumed I HAD to be root to build
>> RPMs, if I even thought about it. Not sure where I got that idea.   Maybe
>> because you have to become root to INSTALL packages and I just assumed
>> that building them was the same.  I'm not one of those who is always
>> root.  Only rarely do I find it necessary to become root but I thought
>> this was one of those times.
> 
> 
> When I started building SRPMS back in Red Hat 5.2 days, I couldn't 
> imagine having to be root to do it, so I asked on the RPM mailing list 
> and found the black magic for doing it as a mortal. 

That would be changing the ownership of /usr/src/redhat?  Actually, I 
didn't even have to do that.  I chmodded it to g+w and put myself into 
the root group.  That also did the job.

> 
> I tried to complain about the misleading nature of /usr/src/redhat but 
> couldn't make any traction:
> 
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143746>
> 
--Agreed. The fact that /usr/lib/rpm/macros points at /usr/src/redhat
--and that directory is owned by root establishes a defacto policy of
--encouraging users to package as root.

I knew there was some reason I assumed this.  And yours was a relatively 
recent discussion!

Anyway, thanks.

Steve