On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 07:48:52PM -0700, Rob McMillin wrote:
| Duncan Findlay wrote:
|
| >I don't know anything about RPM's (other than that they are far inferior to
| >.deb's).
| >
| >Debian's packages are installed with:
| >make install PREFIX="/some/local/dir/usr"
| >So, config files go in /some/local/dir/etc. (With LOCAL_RULES_DIR set to
| >'$(PREFIX)../etc/mail')
| >
| >Clearly this does not require root privileges!
| >
| >If this doesn't solve your 'non-root RPM build problem,' then I pity
| >everyone ever building RPMs.
|
| No, it doesn't. I don't need or want your pity, or your snarky 'tude,
| either, especially seeing as how you seem perfectly willing to admit you
| don't know anything about RPMs yet you claim Debian's installation
| process is superior without offering so much as a whit of evidence in
| support.
Do you want evidence? I found more than plenty of it when recently I
had to touch RH once again.
| What I *do* want is a mechanism to build RPMs as a non-root user.
I couldn't get this to work for _any_ (s)rpm.
-D
--
The fear of the Lord leads to life:
Then one rests content, untouched by trouble.
Proverbs 19:23
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