From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Two RPM building improvements Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:20:47 -0700 Message-ID: <7vvdpvdjj4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1238157134-27558-1-git-send-email-Niels@Basjes.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Niels Basjes , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 27 17:22:26 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 1LnEp6-0004TF-Je for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:22:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758845AbZC0QU6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:20:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757665AbZC0QU5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:20:57 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:35204 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756768AbZC0QU4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:20:56 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B769E9FBC; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:20:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0E37E9FBA; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:20:48 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 3DFE7BD0-1AEB-11DE-BEBA-C5D912508E2D-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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.