Re: [PATCH] Two RPM building improvements

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

Niels Basjes [off-list ref] writes:

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Two RPM building improvements:

Two _unrelated_ RPM building improvements squashed in one commit.

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  - Building the RPMs can now be done by a non-root user.

It was always possible, you only have to configure rpm / rpmbuild,
namely put path to where you want your RPM_BUILDING directory in
~/.rpmmacros as %_topdir, for example:

  $ cat ~/.rpmmacros
  %_topdir        /home/local/builddir

Please RTFM first, before going to solve non-problem in (ugh) fairly
complicated way.

That might be a bit too harsh to somebody who genuinely wished to share
his improvement with others.

Being RPM novice, the first thing I asked around immediately after taking
the maintainership over was the ~/.rpmmacros trick.  We really should
mention it in _our_ documentation, even just a sentence or two would be
sufficient.