[OpenCA-Devel] Are RPMS Building Right Now?

[Rob T. <use...@to...>]

I'm working to get RPMs built for OpenCA on the CVS trunk.   I'm still 
failing.

Before I start flooding the list with diagnostics, I wanted to check if 
anyone is doing this right now.  I've found several general issues I 
can't resolve:

    * Some of the .spec files are writing files to system directories on
      the build systems, which can't be right.  For example, some of the
      perl module RPM specs are writing to perl system directories
      during rpmbuild -ba.
    * Many of the spec files don't use the BuildRoot  directive or the
      RPM_BUILD_ROOT variable, causing the %install  directives to do
      funny things  like  write to system directories during package builds.
    * Many of the  "install" targets want to set group and owner even
      when called for package builds.  This isn't that bad, although it
      does require the package builds to run as "root".  Since the
      scripts are otherwise also misbehaving, though, this makes running
      the scripts as root a little risky :-(

I notice that the last RPMs I found posted were for 0.9.1.  Has anyone 
built the RPMs since then?

I'm assuming that at least some of these issues will affect the Debian 
packagers as well.  Have you folks figured out good work arounds?

General info:  I'm building on RedHat 9 using

    make -f Makefile.devel rpms



Thanks,
Rob
Torenware Networks