You can set up RPM to let normal users compile source RPMS without having to su to root all the time.

Simply copy this into /.rpmmacros

%packager You <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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