From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: [PATCH] Two RPM building improvements Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:43:17 +0100 Message-ID: <49CD2C55.8020502@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <1238157134-27558-1-git-send-email-Niels@Basjes.nl> <7vvdpvdjj4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jakub Narebski , Niels Basjes , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 27 20:45:20 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LnHzB-0004s2-BM for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:45:01 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757386AbZC0Tn3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:43:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756992AbZC0Tn2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:43:28 -0400 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:34640 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756250AbZC0Tn1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:43:27 -0400 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C8B4301AE7; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:43:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:43:25 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: rxSBNdS+W5k99ZVd65zJP/4Co2Ks1Un1GVJUfTh9aAms 1238183004 Received: from localhost.localdomain (p4FC63422.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.198.52.34]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6226812152; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:43:24 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090326 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0b3pre In-Reply-To: <7vvdpvdjj4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 27.03.2009 17:20: > Jakub Narebski writes: > >> Niels Basjes writes: >> >>> Two RPM building improvements: >> >> Two _unrelated_ RPM building improvements squashed in one commit. >> >>> - 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. I assumed everyone building rpms would use rpmdev-setuptree from rpmdevtools, but apparently not ;) I'm not sure whether non-Redhat rpm-based distros have that, though. I'm wondering a bit about the all-rpms target. How does this work without mock? All build requirements installed for all platforms?? I think it really calls for a mock build/vm (unless i386 on x86_64). Michael