[TriLUG] SRPMs on RHL 8.0

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 12:46, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 10:17, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> 
> > With the default configuration, you'll need to run these commands as
> > root, and the resulting binary RPMs will be found in
> > /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/
> 
> No! No! No!  RPMS should *NEVER* be built as root.  You can really
> screw up your system this way. 

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it was a good idea.  It's just that
you have to run it as root if you don't do any additional
configuration.  So please do follow the instructions on setting up the
.rpmmacros file to build as non-root!
 
--Jeremy