Re: [fetchmail-devel] Re: [fetchmail-svn] r3905 - trunk/dist-tools/shipper

[Matthias A. <ma...@dt...>]

Rob Funk <rf...@fu...> writes:

> Matthias Andree at BerliOS wrote:
>> Modified:
>>    trunk/dist-tools/shipper/buildrpms
>> Log:
>> Try fallback to rpm (in case rpm is version 3).
>>
>> -rpmbuild --rcfile "$RCFILE" $ARCH -ta $TARBALL
>> +rpmbuild --rcfile "$RCFILE" $ARCH -ta $TARBALL \
>> +|| rpm --rcfile "$RCFILE" $ARCH -ta $TARBALL
>
> How old is rpm version 3?  Isn't it old enough to ignore by now?  Doesn't 
> rpm v3 require building the rpm file as root?

RPM v3 is still in use on supported SuSE versions, for instance 8.2, and
they have a nifty "patch RPM" feature for their online update - so it's
not old enough yet unfortunately.

I'm not aware of RPM requiring "root" - that's just a matter of
permissions on directories and all that. RPM v3 supports BuildRoot and
all that is needed.

> One of my next steps was going to be removing the references to building 
> the rpm as root.

I'm looking forward to those changes. :-)

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