Bart Schaefer wrote:
>>Why should it be necessary to be root in order to build an RPM?)
>>
>
>No ... in fact, to build an RPM with the buildroot different from the
>target install tree, you'd have more success as a non-root user. Right
>now, installing NEVER puts local.cf anywhere but /etc/mail/spamassassin,
>which means that a .spec with buildroot of (say) /tmp will fail because
>/tmp/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf won't exist after "make install".
>The proposed patch fixes that for non-root, but only sometimes for root.
>
That's not my experience -- the RPM won't build because the install
can't modify /etc.
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