I’ve been involved in an ongoing project to build RPMs for all of the “custom” software installs we use on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) at AppCove. By default (on RHEL), source RPMs are installed to /usr/src/redhat. This is nice, except that I don’t want to be running as root when building software. rpm -i [...]
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Installing Source RPMs to your home directory
Posted in AppCove, Linux, System Administration, Technique, tagged Bloglet, RedHat, RHEL, RPM, SRPM on March 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »