-----Original Message----- From: cour...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:cour...@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Jesse Keating Sent: 18 July 2002 00:31 To: cour...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Building RPMs again (was RE: [courier-users] Allow relay from any IP if authenticated)

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 00:21:25 +0100 "Bill Michell" <bi...@mics.org.uk> wrote:

#Then I start to hit problems - the faq doesn't make clear exactly how you #"use that spec file to build your RPMs" - I have successfully overwritten my #changes now several times. Should I be using the -ta option to rpm, or -tb, #or something else? Oh - and there was a message on the mailing list suggests #using ~ in the .rpmmacros file; this doesn't work too well (on SuSE at #least) - you need to use either $HOME, or hard-code the value. Otherwise you #see odd messages about inability to copy locale files to courier.spec, which #is obviously nonsense.

You use rpm -ba file.spec

As far as ~ is concerned, that is a bash thing. If bash isn't your shell *shrug*

#Second, if I try and build the RPMs as non-root, I can't actually complete #the process because /sbin/chkconfig is in the sbin directory, and ordinary #users don't have access to that directory, which is reasonable, since stuff #goes in the sbin directory, rather than bin, for a reason.

Add /sbin:/usr/sbin to your $PATH. The only reason users don't have "access" is because it isn't in their $PATH. A lot of the apps in that directory can be ran as normal users.

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