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!!!Allow normal users to compile source [RPM]s without root permissions

Simply copy this into __~/.rpmmacros__

 %packager		Your <email>
 %distribution          Personal custom flag
 %vendor		You
 %_signature		gpg
 %_gpg_path		~/.gnupg
 %_gpg_name		your gpg name
 %_gpgbin		/usr/bin/gpg

 %_topdir               /home/user/redhat
 %_tmppath		/var/tmp/rpm

 %_rpmtopdir		%{_topdir}
 %_builddir		%{_topdir}/BUILD
 %_rpmdir		%{_rpmtopdir}/RPMS
 %_sourcedir		%{_rpmtopdir}/SOURCES
 %_specdir		%{_rpmtopdir}/SPECS
 %_srcrpmdir		%{_rpmtopdir}/SRPMS

If you don't want to sign the packages you can comment out/delete the lines from %_signature to %_gpgbin. You can also change %_topdir to your liking.

You will need to recreate the directory tree to compile into:
 mkdir BUILD  RPMS  SOURCES  SPECS  SRPMS
 cd RPMS; mkdir athlon  i386  i486  i586  i686  noarch
Now you can run:
 rpmbuild --rebuild <package name>
as a normal user and install the package(s) that will be in redhat/RPMS/arch

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!!!Fixing RPM if it hangs whenever you run it, regardless of action attempted

RPM databases can get corrupted, or locks can get stuck forever.

  # rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* ; rpm --rebuilddb

Be sure to kill all running instances of RPM before doing this. __rpm --rebuilddb__ may take a while. Afterwards you should be set.

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Last edited on Friday, September 26, 2003 6:30:23 pm by AristotlePagaltzis

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